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他们在找化石。用英语怎么说？

他们在找化石。

They were searching for fossils.

相关词汇
they were searching for fossils

they

pron. 他/她/它们，人们，大家，政府，当局，她们；
例句
The storms had abated by the time they rounded Cape Horn.
他们绕过合恩角时，暴风雨已经减弱。

were

be的过去时复数和第二人称单数形式，有时代替 was,用于条件从句、动词 wish 之后等；
例句
Shops, houses, and vehicles were set ablaze.
店铺、房子和车辆全都陷于火海。

searching

adj. 搜索的，彻底的，锐利的；n. 搜寻，搜索，检查；v. 找寻( search的现在分词 )，搜查，探查，[医学]（用仪器）探测（外伤）；
例句
After several hours of aimless searching they were getting low on fuel.
在几个小时漫无目的的搜寻之后，他们快没燃料了。

for

prep. 为，为了，倾向于，关于，当作；conj. 因为，由于；
例句
I've come looking for a bit of advice.
我特来讨教。

fossils

n. 化石( fossil的名词复数 )，老顽固，食古不化的人，老古董（老人）；
例句
Most of the other fossils come from rhynchosaurs ( parrot - beaked reptiles ).
其他大部分化石来自剪嘴龙 ( 嘴像鹦鹉的爬行动物 ).
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He acknowledged publicly that he might have made a mistake.
他当众承认自己可能犯了个错误。
...the spiralling vortex airflow that slows the plane.
使飞机减速的螺旋形气流涡旋
You just go on ahead. I'll come by later...
你只管先往前走。我随后就来。
He who spares his rod hates his son, But he who loves him chastens him early.
24不忍用杖打儿子的,是恨恶他;疼爱儿子的, 趁早管教.
For further information, please contact 414 3925, extension 2253.
详情请致电414 3925,转分机2253。
He sat there while I made the case for his dismissal...
他坐在那儿，听我陈述解雇他的理由。
Baroness Thatcher's claims seem credible to many.
撒切尔女男爵的主张在很多人看来是可信的。
Nothing to be got without pains but poverty.
一份耕耘，一份收获。
This decree obliges unions to delay strikes.
该法令迫使工会推迟罢工。
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追索权当有支付义务的第一方不能支付时，可以向商业票据的背书人要求支付的权力。
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生活费的下降和工农业产品价格的下降有着密切关系。
well winch
矿井绞车；辘轳
The grass waved in the wind.
草在风中起伏波动。
A great wave overwhelmed the boat.
一个巨浪吞没了那只小船。
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不知为什么他觉得每个人都想害他,但其实他不过是在庸人自扰。
I dropped my camera on the pavement and bust it.
我把照相机掉在人行道上摔坏了。
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19世纪以后发生的种种事件
The writer, an expatriate living in Singapore, has studied and worked in the US.
作者曾在美国读书和工作，目前旅居新加坡。
Every day she walks past my house, with her little black dog at her heels.
她每天从我家门前经过，她的小黑狗紧跟着她。
We’ve been cooped up (indoors) for hours because of the rain.
这场雨把我们困了(在屋里)几个小时。