fossilize meaning in English
vt.
1.使成化石。
2.使(头脑等)陈腐，使僵化，使落伍。
vi.
1.变成化石。
2.僵化，陈腐，过时。
3.〔口语〕搜集化石标本。
n.
-zation
化石作用。
Examples
- The test of whether such traditions are alive or fossilized is whether they express themselves in action, and develop further under new circumstances .
对于这一类传统之是否尚有活力或者已经僵化的检验，在于是否表现于行动，并在新的环境下进一步发展。 - Archaeologists excavated fossilized dinosaur tracks from the riverbed
考古学家从河床中挖掘出恐龙的足迹化石。 - Those things fossilized yet
还没变成化石吗？ - They owe their color to chalk formed from the fossilized skeletons of sea creatures
由海洋生物骨骼化石形成的石灰石而得名。 - With brushes and awls we teased away the rock encasing its fossilized jaws
借着刷子和锥子，我们将附在已成化石的下颚上的石块刨开。