- 1化石；(口語玩笑)老古板、老東西
A fossil is what's left of a plant or animal that lived a very long time ago, preserved in rock, sometimes for millions of years. Dinosaur bones found in the ground are fossils. People also use 'fossil' in a joking way to describe an old-fashioned idea, thing, or even an old person who doesn't like to change with the times, like 'my dad still uses a fax machine — he's such a fossil.'
From the word’s history
From French fossile, from Latin fossilis 'something dug up', from fodio 'to dig up'.
源自拉丁文 fossilis「挖出來的東西」，來自 fodio「挖」。
組成From Latin 'fossilis,' meaning dug up.
原始詞典資料7 筆記錄
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Fossilname
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A small city, the county seat of Wheeler County, Oregon, United States.
fossilnoun/ˈfɒsl̩/
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The mineralized remains of an animal or plant.
- With the permission of the Keeper of the fossil collection, therefore, the specimen was subjected to a further careful removal of the matrix in the requisite directions.
- Within the Hepaticae two types of fossils can be distinguished: those with sufficient characters to assign them to an order and those with more obscure characters.
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biologyhistoryhuman-sciencesAny preserved evidence of ancient life, including shells, imprints, burrows, coprolites, and organically-produced chemicals.
- He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record.
- You know what, we’ve got a limited number of heartbeats in this world so if you’re only truly happy researching fossils and can make it work for you, you go for it.
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human-scienceslinguisticssciencesA fossil word.
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Anything extremely old, extinct, or outdated.
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derogatoryAn extremely old or outdated person.
- I do not want to convey any disrespectful notion or slight when I call those good and learned men fossils, but my experience is that people are apt to fossilise even at a University if they follow the same paths too persistently.
- All at once there was a tapping at the window pane. Atherton was staring at us from without. He shouted through the glass, ‘Come out of that, you fossils! — I’ve news for you!’
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A piece of content, which, despite its age, is being repromoted to a large volume of users by the algorithm.
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