ossify
英 ['ɒsɪfaɪ]
美['ɑsɪfaɪ]
- vi. 骨化；硬化；僵化
- vt. 使硬化；使骨化；使僵化
词态变化
第三人称单数: ossifies;过去式: ossified;过去分词: ossified;现在分词: ossifying;名词: ossification;
中文词源
ossify 使骨化，僵化
oss-,骨头，-fy,使。即使骨化，引申词义僵化。
英文词源
- 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.
双语例句
- 1. It reckons that rationing would ossify the farm industry.
- 人们认为实行配给制会使农业失去活力。
来自柯林斯例句
- 2. It is easy for the mind to ossify.
- 脑筋是易于僵化的.
来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
- 3. British society tended to ossify and close ranks as the 1930s drew to their close.
- 英国社会在20世纪30年代末期趋于保守和自闭。
来自柯林斯例句
- 4. This disease will make her tendons ossify and her body paralyzed into a statue.
- 她肩膀两侧长出额外骨头,病情会令她的肌腱继续骨化,身体逐步瘫痪,最终变成一尊雕像.
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