查询词典 petrified

Indeed, they often act as a linguistic fossil record, preserving objects and behaviour that have long since fallen into petrified obsolescence. Industrious sorts no longer burn the midnight oil. Flashes in the pan are common even if the flintlock muskets that gave rise to them are museum pieces. Colours are still nailed to masts, metal though they now usually are.

勤奋的人们不再是"焚膏"以继晷；"火药池中瞬间闪现的火光（ flashes in the pan ，比喻显耀一时却终归失败或昙花一现）"现在也很常见［译注：暗示现在这个成语已不再适合比喻昙花一现了］，即使造就它的燧发枪已经躺在了博物馆里；要想"公开表明立场（ nail one's colours to the mast ）"还得把钉子钉在桅杆上，尽管现在的桅杆大都是金属的了。

I can't figure out which one's worse:Me feeling guity because I'm letting Miranda fight my battle;or being petrified at the thought of telling Kate the truth.

我不知道那种做法会更糟。让米兰达继续替我应战，而我在一旁内疚；或是告诉凯特真相，而我却要经受惶恐。

Faced with that choice - my petrified, imploring child, or getting the right take..

面对这样的选择---我那吓坏了的，苦苦哀求的孩子，或者再拍一个正确的镜头。

Mandrake,or Mandragora is used to return those who have been Petrified to their original state.

曼德拉草或者叫曼陀罗草是被用来使被石化的人到回复到其原始状态的。

Common types are: blue lace agate, moss agate, tree agate and petrified wood.

常见的类型是：蓝纹玛瑙，苔藓玛瑙，玛瑙树和木化石。

The first breach in this petrified outlook on nature was made not by a natural scientist but by a philosopher. In 1755 appeared Kant's Allgemeine Naturgesehichte und Theorie des Himmels .

给这种僵化的自然观打开第一个缺口的，不是自然科学家，而是哲学家。1755年康德发表了《自然通史和天体理论》。

In feathered hats that were once the rage, she resembles a petrified parakeet from the Jurassic age.

带着一顶过时的羽饰帽，简直就像个侏罗纪时代的鹦鹉活化石。

He stopped at the baker's, who called himself a pastrycook and confectioner, and exhibited some specimens of petrified sponge-cake in glass bottles, and some highly-glazed tarts, covered with green gauze.

他在面包店门口站住了，它自称是制造、销售糕点、糖果、蜜饯的店铺，陈列着一些样品：装在玻璃瓶里的已经发硬的松糕，用绿纱罩着的、表面糖浆发亮的果馅饼。

Minerals and elements such as manganese, iron, copper, cobalt, carbon, chromium and silica which are present in the petrification process give the petrified wood a rich variety of colour range and lustre.

在石化的过程中，含锰、铁、铜、钴、碳、铬、硅等化学元素的矿物会参与其中，赋予了木化石变化万千的色彩与光泽。

The petrified wood fossils have been preserved for millions of years by the process of petrification, a process which turns the wood into quartz crystal, harder than steel.

石化木材的化石自石化过程起，已经历了数百万年，石化过程会将木材转变成为比钢铁还要坚硬的石英晶体。

Cable dampener cannot be rolled up but must be hung over the cable.

缆帆不能被卷起，必须保证处于展开状态

"This skylark is a present from my master," he says.

"这只云雀是我主人献上的礼物。"他说。