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So it will not be an unchanging sign that tends to fossilize and to limit itself and its relations with the surroundings.
因此，它不會是一個將一成不變的、已趨凝固的符號，規(guī)范限制自身，以及自己和周圍的關系。
Like many conveniences in software development, a shared database is a tar pit waiting to fossilize a project. Developers overwrite each other's changes.
就像軟件開發(fā)中其它所謂便捷的方法一樣，共享數(shù)據(jù)庫的使用也是一個泥潭，它正等著凍結(jié)一個項目呢。
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.
盡管過去的幾個世紀里，我們對恐龍類有比較深入的研究，可是古生物學家仍對它們的呼吸狀態(tài)知之甚少，因為肺無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

If the remains of an animal or plant fossilize or are fossilized, they become hard and form fossils, instead of decaying completely.
If you say that ideas, attitudes, or ways of behaving have fossilized or have been fossilized, you are criticizing the fact that they are fixed and unlikely to change, in spite of changing situations or circumstances.
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