fossilize

常见例句

So it will not be an unchanging sign that tends to fossilize and to limit itself and its relations with the surroundings.
因此，它不会是一个将一成不变的、已趋凝固的符号，规范限制自身，以及自己和周围的关系。
Like many conveniences in software development, a shared database is a tar pit waiting to fossilize a project. Developers overwrite each other's changes.
就像软件开发中其它所谓便捷的方法一样，共享数据库的使用也是一个泥潭，它正等着冻结一个项目呢。
As well-studied as dinosaurs have been over the past couple of centuries, paleontologists have learned little about their breathing, because lungs do not fossilize.
尽管过去的几个世纪里，我们对恐龙类有比较深入的研究，可是古生物学家仍对它们的呼吸状态知之甚少，因为肺无法形成化石保存至今。

Only a vanishingly small fraction of prehistoric animals died in the perfect conditions--including a swift cover of sediment--necessary to fossilize bones in the first place.
FORBES: Fossil Hunting