英语释义

• someone whose style is out of fashion

• characteristic of a fossil

• the remains (or an impression) of a plant or animal that existed in a past geological age and that has been excavated from the soil

片语

fossil fuel[能源] 矿物燃料，[能源] 化石燃料

fossil ice[水文]

Fossil Flax石棉

fossil delta古三角洲

fossil oil石油；化石燃料

bacterielles fossil细菌化石

trace fossil生痕化石；[地质] 蹤迹化石

facies fossil[古生]

index fossil[古生] 标準化石，[古生] 标志化石

Fossil HunterFossil Hunter is a novel written by Canadian science fiction author Robert J. Sawyer.

Anan Fossil安安化石

living fossil[生物] 活化石；落后于时代的人

geochemical fossil古地球化学指标

英汉例句

• the discovery of the beautiful fossil primate ida is a triumphant -vindication of the greatest of darwin「s insights – but not, alas, the one for which he is best remembered: natural selection.

  美丽的艾达——这一灵长动物化石的发现是一次胜利，不过它证实的是达尔文卓越的洞察力，而不是他最令人铭记的理论之一：自然选择。

• carbon taxes or auctioned emissions permits not only address climate change but recapture some of the windfall profits of fossil fuel exporters.

  碳税或排放许可拍卖，不仅有利于解决气候变化问题，也会挤压化石燃料出口商的暴利空间。

• that means the drop in oxygen will depend largely on how much more fossil fuel we burn.

  这就意味着含氧量的减少很大程度上取决于我们烧了多少的化石燃料。

• we all know, or at least sense, that the world is upside down: we act as if there is no end to what is actually finite: fossil fuels and the atmospheric space to absorb their emissions.

  至少从某些方面来说我们都知道世界都乱了套：我们行动就好像没有尽头实际上是有限的：化石燃料和大气空间以吸收她们的排放物。

• that any traces at all remain from so long ago is astounding, and anyway it is not the completeness of the fossil record but its consistency that matters.

  这些延伸到过去的印迹令人震撼，虽然这些并不是全部的线索，但是重要在于化石记录着过去到现在的连带关系。

• but they are known as fossil fuels because they are made from decomposed plants and animals that have been buried in the ground for millions of years.

  但是，他们之所以又被视为化石燃料，主要还是因为它们是由史前时代的动植物经腐烂后埋藏在地下数百万年而成的。

• fossil fuels, though, are only a part of the larger energy mix.

  然而，化石燃料仅仅是大部分能量混合中的一部分。

• the reality is, that next fossil find could kick archaeopteryx right back into birds. that」s the thing that「s really exciting about all of this.

  事实是，下一次的化石发现能把‘始祖鸟’踢回鸟类的行列里，那可真是在关于这全部的事情里最令人兴奋的呢！

• given the vagaries of the fossil record, current notions of near resolution of many of the most basic questions about long-extinct forms should probably be regarded with caution.

  考虑到化石记录的奇特性，许多关于早已灭绝的物种的最基本问题近期决议的最新观点都可能应当以谨慎的态度对待。

• as the evolution into three species would have taken extreme lengths of time, combined with the lack of fossil records in africa, the team concludes that asia was the most likely origin.

  由于要进化成三个不同的物种需要特别漫长的时间，结合在非洲没有发现有关化石的记录，考古队得出结论，亚洲是该物种最有可能的起源地。

• the goal of this project was to make it feel like an internal inhabitant of a snail, like a mollusk moving from one chamber to another, like a symbiotic dweller of a huge fossil maternal cloister.

  此工程的目的是给人一种居住在蜗牛内部的感觉，像软体动物一样从一个房间爬到另一个房间，像寄居在一座大型化石修道院里的寄生动物一样。

• having noticed a pattern of cave and fossil sites in the region around the cradle of humankind near johannesburg, he went on to identify 500 new possible places old bones could be buried.

  他注意到在约翰内斯堡附近的人类摇篮周围地区有洞穴和化石遗址的格局，李伯杰继续观察并辨认出了500个古代骨头可能埋葬的地点。

• so you have more information in it than almost any fossil you could think of.

  这样以来，你可以比从其他任何化石中所能了解到信息都要多。

• specimens from all over the world come in, still encased in the rock or mud where they were found, and it」s the job of the fossil preparators to get the skulls, femurs and teeth out.

  世界各地的标本在被运到这里时，还被密封在巖石或发现源地的污泥之中，只有经过化石準备工作以后，那些头颅、股骨和牙齿才能显露出来。

• it is the least polluting of the fossil fuels, which means it should be in demand if the world adopts tighter constraints on greenhouse gases.

  天然气是污染最少的化石燃料，这意味着如果世界对温室气体排放采取严格的限制，应该会有对天然气的需求。

• finding a fossil in a coal mine is no big deal.

  在煤矿里发现化石并不是什么大不了的事。

• but the other trend is that the price of coal and other fossil fuels are going up.

  另外一个趋势就是煤炭和其他化石燃料的价格正在上涨。

• so if you look at this part of the curve, this chart, everything to the right is in fact what you might see in a conventional fossil boil or natural gas plant.

  所以，如果你们观察曲线的这部分，这个图表，右边的每一件事事实上是你们会在,传统的化石沸腾或自然气体电站看到的。

• if some of the same tools show up in fossil bones of our own ancestors, it could explain the early evolutionary changes that allowed us to walk.

  如果在我们自己的祖先的骨头化石上，出现相同的「工具」，它就可以解释使我们能够行走的早期的进化过程。

• we have fossil fuel on earth.

  我们地球上有矿物燃料。

• you believe that instead of trying to replace fossil fuels with other energy sources, we should let the system slide.

  你相信不要试图用其他能源来源取代化石燃料，我们应该让这个系统塌下去。

• the jury is still out, though fossil charcoal shows that forest fires were common at the time.

  答案依然悬而未决，尽管木炭的化石表明森林大火在那时是很普遍的。

• the fossil lungfish is a new species, but a name cannot be given because of its uncertain origin.

  这种化石的肺鱼是新的物种，但因为它不确定的来源导致至今无法命名。

相似词

remains保持（remain 的第三人称单数）

relic遗迹，遗物；废墟；纪念物

trace(Trace) （美）塔斯（人名）

vestige遗迹；残余；退化的器官

trace(Trace) （美）塔斯（人名）

remains保持（remain 的第三人称单数）

relic遗迹，遗物；废墟；纪念物

vestige遗迹；残余；退化的器官