They fossilise an industrial structure that needs to change.

这些措施会令原本需要变革的产业结构陷入僵化。

Not only words and epithets fossilise, whole situations can fossilise too.

不仅词和形容词封存，整个情况可以封存了。

The brain itself does not fossilise, but the inside of the cranium retains an impression of its contours.

脑部分本身是不会变成化石的，但在头盖骨内部却还保留着脑的轮廓。

But overly prescriptive rules that fossilise the Internet in its current form could indeed hamper innovation.

但过度的法定规则会将互联网限制在当前的的形式中，这种规则的确有碍创造性的发挥。

That proved bipedalism did not evolve on the savannah, but since hair does not fossilise, it is hard to establish when the hominids began to lose it.

这证明，两足动物的演化史并不是在大草原上进行的。但是，由于毛发不会变成化石，因此很难确定原始人类在什么时候开始失去毛发。

Germany's schemes to prop up demand for cars and car workers have the same weakness. They fossilise an industrial structure that needs to change.

德国对汽车业和汽车工人的支持计划也暴露出同样的弱点。这些计划使得需要变革的工业结构僵化不变。