fossil是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 化石，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Isn't it just rotten fossil fish--isn't it like the mummy-dust and puppy- ear stuff they used to give in the olden days?"
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It's a little out-of-the-way place, where they administer what iscalled ecclesiastical law, and play all kinds of tricks with obsoleteold monsters of Acts of Parliament, which three-fourths of theworld know nothing about, and the other fourth supposes to havebeen dug up, in a fossil state, in the days of the Edwards.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It reminded me of a sepia painting I had once seen done from the ink of a fossil Belemnite that must have perished and become fossilised millions of years ago.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In my state of mind, the idea came into my head that one day perhaps, when my fossil bones were found, their discovery so far below the level of the earth might give rise to solemn and interesting scientific discussions.
-- "Yes," said the learned Professor, "what you see is called fossil wood."
-- Many of these woods have become true anthracites, but others again, like those you see before you, have only undergone one phase of fossil transformation.
-- After a long and patient examination, he said: "This fish, my dear boy, belongs to a family which has been extinct for ages, and of which no trace has ever been found on earth, except fossil remains in the Devonian strata."
-- "We have," said the Professor, who all this time was continuing his observations, "and you may see by careful examination that these fossil fish have no identity with existing species.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And, with a rigid movement of her stony reticule (an appendage of great size and of a fossil appearance), indicated that Clennam was the unfortunate person at whom the challenge was hurled.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Fossil Whale.
-- Ere entering upon the subject of Fossil Whales, I present my credentials as a geologist, by stating that in my miscellaneous time I have been a stone-mason, and also a great digger of ditches, canals and wells, wine-vaults, cellars, and cisterns of all sorts.
-- Likewise, by way of preliminary, I desire to remind the reader, that while in the earlier geological strata there are found the fossils of monsters now almost completely extinct; the subsequent relics discovered in what are called the Tertiary formations seem the connecting, or at any rate intercepted links, between the antichronical creatures, and those whose remote posterity are said to have entered the Ark; all the Fossil Whales hitherto discovered belong to the Tertiary period, which is the last preceding the superficial formations.
-- But upon investigation we find, that not only are the whales of the present day superior in magnitude to those whose fossil remains are found in the Tertiary system (embracing a distinct geological period prior to man), but of the whales found in that Tertiary system, those belonging to its latter formations exceed in size those of its earlier ones.
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