fossil
英 ['f?s(?)l; -s?l]
美['fɑsl]
- n. 化石；僵化的事物；頑固不化的人
- adj. 化石的；陳腐的，守舊的
考試真題
- Houde and his fellow faculty members dug up the fossil in late May.
2019年12月四級真題（第二套）聽力 Section C
- It was fortunate that the family didn't try to dig up the fossil because that could destroy the specimen; they did the right thing by calling someone who would know what to do.
2019年12月四級真題（第二套）聽力 Section C
- Jude and his family had been invited by the researchers to see the fossil being preserved at the university.
2019年12月四級真題（第二套）聽力 Section C
- Kyle Sparks, father of Jude, said he let his son decide what to do with the fossil.
2019年12月四級真題（第二套）聽力 Section C
- So Jude reached out to Peter Houde, a professor at new Mexico State University who had experience with the same type of fossil in the past.
2019年12月四級真題（第二套）聽力 Section C
- Starting April 28 of this year, the National Museum of Natural history will begin renovating its fossil hall.
2019年12月四級真題（第一套）聽力 Section A
- The extensive data sources, combined with computer simulations, created a timeline of ocean temperature changes, including cooling from volcanic outbreaks and warming from fossil fuel emissions.
2016年12月四級真題（第二套）閱讀 Section A
- The fossil hall, which displays some of the world's oldest and largest fossil specimens, receives more than 2 million visitors each year.
2019年12月四級真題（第一套）聽力 Section A
- The next day Houde came out to see the fossil for himself.
2019年12月四級真題（第二套）聽力 Section C
- The winner of this year's competition will be awarded a preview of the new fossil hall, as well as a cash prize.
2019年12月四級真題（第一套）聽力 Section A
- There is strong evidence that both innovation and adoption of cleaner technology are strongly encouraged by higher fossil fuel prices.
出自-2017年6月閱讀原文
- The same is true for new technologies for alleviating fossil fuel emissions.
出自-2017年6月閱讀原文
- The current low fossil fuel price environment will thus certainly delay the energy transition from fossil fuel to clean energy sources.
出自-2017年6月閱讀原文
- The International Monetary Fund calculates that countries can generate substantial fiscal revenues by eliminating fossil fuel subsidies and levying carbon charges that capture the domestic damage caused by emissions.
出自-2017年6月閱讀原文
- Renewables account for only a small share of global primary energy consumption, which is still dominated by fossil fuels—30% each for coal and oil, 25% for natural gas.
出自-2017年6月閱讀原文
- Progress in the development of renewables could be fragile, however, if fossil fuel prices remain low for long.
出自-2017年6月閱讀原文
- Notwithstanding important recent progress in developing renewable fuel sources, low fossil fuel prices could discourage further innovation in, and adoption of, cleaner energy technologies.
出自-2017年6月閱讀原文
- Natural gas and coal—also fossil fuels—have similarly seen price declines that look to be long-lived.
出自-2017年6月閱讀原文
- It is urgent for governments to increase the cost of using fossil fuels to an appropriate level to lessen the catastrophic effects of climate change.
出自-2017年6月閱讀原文
- If not corrected by the appropriate carbon price, low fossil fuel prices are not accurately signaling to markets the true social profitability of clean energy.
出自-2017年6月閱讀原文
- Higher fossil fuel prices prove to be conducive to innovation and application of cleaner technologyIf fossil fuel prices remain low for a long time, it may lead to higher emissions of greenhouse gases.
出自-2017年6月閱讀原文
- Fossil fuels remain the major source of primary energy consumption in today's world.
出自-2017年6月閱讀原文
- Fossil fuel prices are likely to stay low for long.
出自-2017年6月閱讀原文
- Even major fossil fuel exporting countries have great potential to develop renewable energies.
出自-2017年6月閱讀原文
- Even Africa and the Middle East, home to economies that are heavily dependent on fossil fuel exports, have enormous potential to develop renewables.
出自-2017年6月閱讀原文
- Direct subsidies to research and development have been adopted by some governments but are a poor substitute for a carbon price: they do only part of the job, leaving in place market incentives to over-use fossil fuels and thereby add to the stock of atmospheric greenhouse gases without regard to the collateral ( ' , 附帶的) costs.
出自-2017年6月閱讀原文
- But renewable energy will have to displace fossil fuels to a much greater extent in the future to avoid unacceptable climate risks.
出自-2017年6月閱讀原文
- But there are also many examples of growing wealth by trashing the environment, in rich and poor parts of the world alike, whether through unregulated mineral extraction, drastic water use for agriculture, slash-and-burn farming, or fossil-fuel-guzzling ( ' , 大量消耗) transport.
出自-2016年6月閱讀原文
- In other words, a few countries are benefiting enormously from the consumption of fossil fuels, while at the same time contributing disproportionately to the global burden of climate change.
出自-2016年12月閱讀原文
- Since much of this energy comes from the utilisation of fossil fuels, wastage of food potentially contributes to unnecessary global warming as well as inefficient resource utilisation.
出自-2013年12月閱讀原文
- As long as we're consuming fossil fuels, we're putting out CO2,"says Klaus Lackner, a geophysicist at Columbia, University" We cannot let the CO2 in the atmosphere rise indefinitely.
出自-2012年6月閱讀原文
- They found fossils of microscopic marine plants which suggest that the region was once open ocean not solid ice.
出自-2010年12月聽力原文
- Direct subsidies to research and development have been adopted by some governments but are a poor substitute for a carbon price: they do only part of the job, leaving in place market incentives to over-use fossil fuels and thereby add to the stock of atmo
2017年6月六級真題（第一套）閱讀 Section B
- Even Africa and the middle East, home to economies that are heavily dependent on fossil fuel exports, have enormous potential to develop renewables.
2017年6月六級真題（第一套）閱讀 Section B
- He and other scientists say there are basically two options to replacing fossil fuels: generating energy with renewables or embracing nuclear power.
2016年6月六級真題（第一套）聽力 Section C
- We can make a very good estimate from the fossil record that humans probably evolved naked skin around a million and a half years ago and meanwhile they mostly lost their coat of fur.
2019年6月六級真題（第一套）聽力 Section C
- The fossil record shows that many species have endured for millions of years - so why shouldn't we? Take a broader look at our species' place in the universe, and it becomes clear that we have an excellent chance of surviving for tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of years.
出自-2013年考研閱讀原文
- President Trump has underlined fossil fuels – especially coal – as the path to economic growth.
2018年考研真題（英語二）閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ
- The fossil record shows that many species have endured for millions of years-so why shouldn't we?
2013年考研真題（英語一）閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ
- The strategy also aims to ensure that carbon in woody material removed from the forests is locked away in the form of solid lumber or burned as biofuel in vehicles that would otherwise run on fossil fuels.
2019年考研真題（英語二）閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ
- While fossil fuels – coal, oil, gas – still generate roughly 85 percent of the world's energy supply, it's clearer than ever that the future belongs to renewable sources such as wind and solar.
2018年考研真題（英語二）閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ