Fossil

(noun.) 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.

(adj.) characteristic of a fossil .

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• Hi, old fossil, cried the man who had first called on him for assistance, did je think we wanted of you to read the bloomin' notis to yourself? 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• As early as 1747 he had been interested in geology and had seen specimens of the fossil remains of marine shells from th e strata of the highest parts of the Alleghany Mountains. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• Rub the fossil silica to a fine powder and thoroughly mix with the chalk. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• Prepared chalk or whiting can be used instead of fossil silica. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• Why does not every collection of fossil remains afford plain evidence of the gradation and mutation of the forms of life? 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• Only organic beings of certain classes can be preserved in a fossil condition, at least in any great number. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• I said Damascus was an old fossil, and she is. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Dalton, likewise, in Pander and Dalton's work on Fossil Sloths, expressed, in 1821, a similar belief. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• Mr. Clift many years ago showed that the fossil mammals from the Australian caves were closely allied to the living marsupials of that continent. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• We mean very much the same thing when we refer to Fossil Forests. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Fossil remains sometimes tend to fill up very wide intervals between existing orders. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• These markings and fossils in the rocks and the rocks themselves are our first historical documents. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• But when we call these rocks and the fossils a record and a history, it must not be supposed that there is any sign of an orderly keeping of a record. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• At any time some new deposit may reveal fossils that will illuminate this question. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• We find fossils in the Eocene of monkeys and lemurs, but of one particular creature we have as yet not a single bone. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• At this period organized fossils first appear. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• It is all over now; but when I look back, the idea of these venerable fossils skipping forth on a six months' picnic, seems exquisitely refreshing. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.

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