living fossil

常见例句

双语例句

• This tree on the Tokyo University campus is, like all gingkos, a living fossil.
  东京大学校园内的这种树木，就像里面所有的银杏，是一种活的化石。
• Instead of finding a “living fossil” identical to an ancient beast, they have found a real fossil identical to a modern one.
  他们不是找到了一个与古兽相同的“活化石”，而是找到了一个跟现代兽类相同的真正化石。
• Scientists call it a "living fossil" because it has probably been thriving since earliest oceans were formed millions of years ago.
  科学家们将它称作“活化石”，因为它很可能在数百万年前最早的海洋形成时就已经生长繁盛。

原声例句

• Also in the Mediterranean, a team of census-takers discovered a living fossil.

权威例句

• Forty spacecraft have been sent there, and not one has found a single fossil or living thing.
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• There is a fossil dealer living in Japan named Hollis Butts.
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• The other, located largely in the southeast, Texas and the Heartland, makes its living in more traditional industries, from agriculture and manufacturing to fossil fuel development.
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