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1Burning fossil fuels uses oxygen and produces carbon dioxide.燃燒化石燃料消耗氧氣併產生二氧化碳。《柯林斯英漢雙解大詞典》

2On a global scale, 77% of energy is created from fossil fuels.全球77%的能量產生自化石燃料。《牛津詞典》

3The electricity industry consumes large amounts of fossil fuels.電力工業消耗大量的礦物燃料。《牛津詞典》

4Peter Forey is curator of fossil fishes at the Natural History Museum.彼得·富里是自然歷史博物館魚化石的負責人。《柯林斯英漢雙解大詞典》

5Fossil hunters have unearthed the bones of an elephant believed to be 500,000 years old.化石尋找者們挖掘出了一頭被認為有50萬年之久的大象遺骨。《柯林斯英漢雙解大詞典》

6We have fossil fuel on Earth.我們地球上有化石燃料。

7The only clue he has is a fossil.他唯一的線索就是一塊化石。

8Fossil fuel prices are likely to stay "low for long".化石燃料價格可能會“長期保持較低水平”。

9The fossil luckily includes a good portion of the hind legs.很幸運，化石包含了一大部分後腿。

10Burning fossil fuels releases carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.燃燒化石燃料會向大氣中排放二氧化碳。

11Our use of fossil fuels is the main source of excess greenhouse gases.我們對化石燃料的使用是温室氣體過量的主要來源。

12You have more information from it than from any fossil you can think of.你從中掌握的信息比從任何你能想到的化石中得到的都要多。

13Fossil fuels release carbon that has been stored for years from the earth.化石燃料釋放出在地球上儲存多年的碳。

14Intermediated fossil forms, predicted by gradualism, are typically lacking.進化漸進論所預測的中間狀態的化石一直缺乏。

15The same is true for new technologies for alleviating fossil fuel emissions.減少化石燃料排放的新技術也是如此。

16Extinct but already fully marine cetaceans are known from the fossil record.從化石記錄中可以瞭解到一些已經滅絕、但已經完全變成海洋生物的鯨目動物。

17With such a long interval, it is difficult to determine the age of this fossil.時間隔得這麼久了，很難確定這化石的年代。

18Theres an energy crisis in America, and it has nothing to do with fossil fuels.美國出現了能源危機，並且這一危機與化石燃料無關。

19There's an energy crisis in America, and it has nothing to do with fossil fuels.美國出現了能源危機，並且這一危機與化石燃料無關。

20Close examination of those fossil deposits now reveals a somewhat different story.對那些化石沉積物的仔細研究現在揭示了一個有點不同的故事。

21In fact, fossil beds containing soft-bodied animals have been known for many years.事實上，含有軟體動物的化石層已經被發現很多年了。

22The term "fossil" often implies petrifaction, literally a transformation into stone.“化石”這個詞通常意味着石化，字面意思是變成石頭。

23Fortunately, some recent fossil discoveries have made the picture a little bit clearer.幸運的是，一些近期發現的化石使得這一“圖像”稍顯清晰了。

24In other words, a few countries are benefiting enormously from the consumption of fossil fuels.換句話説，少數幾個國家正通過消耗化石燃料，攫取巨大利益。

25Earth was already in one of its warm interglacial periods when we started burning fossil fuels.當我們開始使用化石燃料時，地球已經處於温暖的間冰期之一。

26The fossil record shows that many species have endured for millions of years—so why shouldn't we?化石記錄顯示，已經有許多物種存活了數百萬年——那麼我們為什麼不能呢？

27Natural gas and coal—also fossil fuels—have similarly seen price declines that look to be long-lived.天然氣和煤炭，還有化石燃料，也出現了類似的價格下跌，而且看起來會持續很長時間。

28However, for older sequence of evolutionary development, estimates based on parts in the fossil record.然而，對於更古老的進化序列，估測則是基於化石記錄的部分。 ^[1]