ossify
英 ['?s?fa?]
美['ɑs?fa?]
- vi. 骨化；硬化；僵化
- vt. 使硬化；使骨化；使僵化
GRE
詞態變化
第三人稱單數:?ossifies;過去式:?ossified;過去分詞:?ossified;現在分詞:?ossifying;名詞:?ossification;
中文詞源
ossify 使骨化，僵化
oss-,骨頭，-fy,使。即使骨化，引申詞義僵化。
英文詞源
- ossify (v.)
- 1713, "to turn into bone," a back-formation from ossification, or else modeled on French ossifier (18c.) and formed from Latin os (genitive ossis) "bone" (see osseous) + -fy. Figurative sense is from 1858. Related: Ossified; ossifying.
雙語例句
- 1. It reckons that rationing would ossify the farm industry.
- 人們認為實行配給制會使農業失去活力。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. It is easy for the mind to ossify.
- 腦筋是易于僵化的.
來自《現代英漢綜合大詞典》
- 3. British society tended to ossify and close ranks as the 1930s drew to their close.
- 英國社會在20世紀30年代末期趨于保守和自閉。
來自柯林斯例句
- 4. This disease will make her tendons ossify and her body paralyzed into a statue.
- 她肩膀兩側長出額外骨頭,病情會令她的肌腱繼續骨化,身體逐步癱瘓,最終變成一尊雕像.
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