-Do you people still use fossil fuel, or have you discovered crystallic fusion?
-Well, let's see. We got double-A's.

——Toy Story

-你們現(xiàn)在是用化石燃料,還是結(jié)晶體熔解物?
-我想想...我們有三號(hào)電池。

——《玩具總動(dòng)員》

一、下面我們來(lái)看看fossil有幾種含義

adj.

1.化石的?preserved from a past geologic age

And fauna of the pleistocene age have been preserved in fossil form.

更新時(shí)期的動(dòng)植物遺跡以化石的形式保存了下來(lái)。

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2.陳腐的,守舊的?being or resembling a fossil

Youngsters' duds were not in their elder's old and fossil style any more.

青少年的服飾已不如他們的父輩那樣古老守舊。

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n.

1.化石?the remains of an animal or a plant which have become hard and turned into rock

Can you date the fossil exactly?

你能確定這化石的確切年代嗎?

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2.僵化的事物;老頑固,頑固不化的人?an old person, especially six who is unable to accept new ideas or adapt to changes

My father is an old fossil.

我老爸是個(gè)老頑固。

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二、下面我們來(lái)學(xué)習(xí)一下含有fossil的常見短語(yǔ)?

fossil fuel

礦物燃料

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fossil oil

石油

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guide fossil

標(biāo)志化石,標(biāo)準(zhǔn)化石,指導(dǎo)性化石,指示化石

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index fossil

標(biāo)準(zhǔn)化石

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三、接下來(lái),做個(gè)小游戲鞏固一下

So you have more information in it than almost any _____ you could think of.

這樣一來(lái),你可以比從其他任何化石中所能了解到信息都要多。