As both Mr Keohane and Mr Yates emphasise, in Britain and America political divisions have ossified into tribal ones.

如基奥恩和耶茨所强调那样，在英国和国，政治分歧已经僵化部落分歧。

Life ossified his face ostensible , but not his heart.

表面上，生活硬化了他脸，但没有硬化他心。

No sensible diner, and no real food-lover, should fret over ossified customs and categories or reject innovation.

任何理智用餐者和真食爱者都僵化习俗和类别烦恼或拒绝创新。

Because you don't need a fully ossified skeleton if you spend most of your time in the water.

因如果你大部分时间都在水中，就需要完全僵化骨骼。

There is a risk that over time a firm's social capital erodes, creativity flags, hierarchies ossify and team spirit fades, as Mr Hastings fears.

这样下去，企业会逐渐面临社会资本被侵蚀、创造力流失、层级僵化和团队精神淡化风险，这也是哈斯廷斯所担心。

Nor is it an institutional device to be constantly modified according to the dictates of some abstract intellectual concept. Nor must it be ossified by endless regulation.

它也是在某种抽象知识概念指示下断修制度安排，也能因无休止监管而陷于僵化。