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fos·sil AHD[fŏsʹəl] D.J.[ˈfɒsəl]K.K.[ˈfɑsəl]n.(名词)- A remnant or trace of an organism of a past geologic age, such as a skeleton or leaf imprint, embedded and preserved in the earth's crust.化石:埋置并保存于地层中的古生物遗体、遗物和其生活遗址,如骨骸、叶子的印痕等
- One, such as a rigid theory, that is outdated or antiquated.过时的或废弃的事物,如僵化的理论
- Linguistics 【语言学】
- A word or morpheme that is used only in certain restricted contexts, askempt in unkempt, but is otherwise obsolete. 旧词:只用于某种限定的上下文中的词或语素,如kempt in unkempt 。在别处已废弃不用
- An archaic syntactic rule or pattern used only in idioms, asso be it. 古语法:一种只用于习语中的古体句法规则和句型,如so be it
adj.(形容词)- Characteristic of or having the nature of a fossil.化石性的:化石性的,有化石特性的
- Being or similar to a fossil.类似化石的:化石的,类似化石的
- Belonging to the past; antiquated.过时的,陈旧的:属于过去的;废弃的
- From Latin fossilis [dug up] 源自 拉丁语 fossilis [掘起,挖出]
- from fossus [past participle of] fodere [to dig] 源自 fossus fodere的过去分词 [挖,掘(土)]
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