\\\"rigidify the training schedule\\\"
\\\"ossified teaching methods\\\"
\\\"slogans petrify our thinking\\\"
cause to become hard and bony;
\\\"The disease ossified the tissue\\\"
造句
用作動詞(v.)
It is easy for the mind to ossify. 腦筋是易于僵化的。
All fixed,fast-frozen relations,with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions,are swept away,all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify. 一切固定的僵化的關系以及與之相適應的素被尊崇的觀念和見解都被消除了，一切新形成的關系等不到固定下來就陳舊了。
常用短語
Doubt..must in the end ossify the higher parts of the mind.
出自：R. H. Hutton
The omnipotent but ossified Soviet Academy of Sciences.