fossil

美音：['fɑs(ə)l] 英音：['fɒs(ə)l]

简单释义：

n.化石；老人；老古董

adj.从地下发掘出来的；化石的；属于旧时代的；陈腐的

网络老顽固；动物化石；动物的化石

变形：

复数：fossils

完整释义：

1.化石
2.老顽固,守旧者;习语中保存的旧词
3.地下采掘出的石块
4.〔口语〕旧事物,旧制度
5.保守派

adj.

1.从地下发掘出来的;化石的
2.古的
3.属于旧时代的;陈腐的;不合时宜的

例句：

But the nuclear industry needs to do more than build a few plants a year to be a true low-carbon alternative to fossil fuels.
但是，要想成为真正的低碳的化石能源替代品，核能行业必须在建造核电站以外做更多的工作。
A couple of days later near the same spot, fossil hunter Alemayehu Asfaw found a piece of a child's jaw with a first molar tooth.
几天以后，在该目击地的附近，化石猎手阿勒迈耶胡·阿斯范（AlemayehuAsfaw）有又发现了一片带有第一臼齿的儿童颌骨化石。
Scientists have found a 67 million-year-old fossil of a snake coiled around dinosaur eggs and a hatchling.
科学家在一块6700万年的化石中发现了一条蛇盘绕在恐龙蛋和一只幼仔周围。
The object, he said, was not to be an alternative for fossil fuels, but "to become a viable replacement. "
目标不是要成为化石燃料的替代，而是“要成为一个可行的替代品。”
OCO measurements could give us an indication of how much longer we can burn fossil fuels at the rate that we're burning them now.
观测卫星（OCO）的测量数据可以给我们一个指标，以现在我们燃烧石化燃料的速度还能有多久。
Fossil fuels are, in terms of the energy they store, remarkably inexpensive to get out of the ground and sell.
由于化石燃料储存能源的方式，使其开采和出售都非常便宜。
In the case of this latest discovery, a fossil attributed to a dinosaur was determined to be a bird.
在最新的发现案例中，一个先前被归类为恐龙的化石被鉴定为属于鸟类。
Human beings need to make far more decisions like this: to leave fossil fuels in the ground, and to leave rainforests standing.
人类需要做出更多此类决定：不去开采地层下面的化石燃料，让雨林自然生长。

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