formal

英[ˈfɔːml]
美[ˈfɔːrml]

基本释义

adj.
正式的; 正规的; 方式上的; 整齐的

词性变化

实用例句

The accounts were formally approved by the board.

账目已由董事会正式批准。

牛津词典

Although not formally trained as an art historian, he is widely respected for his knowledge of the period.

虽然他不是科班出身的艺术史学家,但他对这一时期的知识却普遍为人尊重。

牛津词典

‘How do you do? ’ she said formally.

“你好!”她很正式地说。

牛津词典

delightful formal gardens, with terraced lawns and an avenue of trees

精心布置的有片片草坪和林荫道的宜人花园

牛津词典

It is time to put these arrangements on a slightly more formal basis.

是应该把这些安排做得略为正式一点的时候了。

牛津词典

He has no formal teaching qualifications.

他没有正规的教学资历证明。

牛津词典

Young children are beginning their formal education sometimes as early as four years old.

幼儿有时早在四岁时就开始接受正规教育。

牛津词典

Getting approval for the plan is a purely formal matter; nobody will seriously oppose it.

寻求计划获得批准纯粹是一个形式上的问题,没有人会认真反对的。

牛津词典

Critics have concentrated too much on the formal elements of her poetry, without really looking at what it is saying.

评论家过多地集中评论她诗歌的形式,而没有真正看其内容。

牛津词典

The dinner was a formal affair.

这是正式宴会。

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He kept the tone of the letter formal and businesslike.

他使这封信保持正式公文的语气。

牛津词典

She has a very formal manner, which can seem unfriendly.

她的举止很是郑重其事,有可能会显得不友好。

牛津词典

formal legal processes

正式法律程序

牛津词典

to make a formal apology/complaint/request

正式道歉 / 投诉 / 要求

牛津词典

Formal diplomatic relations between the two countries were re-established in December.

两国于十二月重新建立了正式外交关系。

牛津词典

formal evening dress

晚礼服

牛津词典

He wrote a very formal letter of apology to Douglas...

他给道格拉斯写了一封非常正式的道歉信。

Business relationships are necessarily a bit more formal.

商业关系有必要更正式一些。

UN officials said a formal request was passed to American authorities...

联合国官员称正式请求已向美国当局转达。

No formal announcement had been made.

尚无任何官方声明。

One evening the film company arranged a formal dinner after the play.

一天晚上,电影公司在演出结束后安排了一个正式的晚宴。

They wore ordinary ties instead of the more formal high collar and cravat.

他们打着普通的领带,而不是更为正式的高领领结。

This does not encourage the child to analyse the environment in a formal way...

这并不能鼓励孩子有条理地分析周围的环境。

Classic Greek drama was written in verse, usually in an elevated and formal style.

古典希腊戏剧以韵文写成,通常用词讲究、结构整齐。

Although his formal education stopped after primary school, he was an avid reader...

尽管小学毕业后就再没有受过正规的教育,他却十分爱读书。

Leroy didn't have any formal dance training.

勒罗伊没受过任何正规的舞蹈训练。

...a formal herb garden...

布局匀称的草药园

The Coronata wallpaper lends a formal air to the dining room.

科罗娜塔墙纸给餐厅增添了一种整齐有致的气氛。

真题例句

People were coming out of a formal and almost Victorian attitude, and you really felt anything was possible.

出自-2017年6月听力原文

Already, by paying close attention to and interacting with the world and people around him, and without any school-type formal instruction, he has done a task far more difficult, complicated and abstract than anything he will be asked to do in school, or than any of his teachers has done for years.

出自-2010年6月听力原文

In Southern California, Loma Linda University School of Medicine is offering specialized training for its resident physicians in lifestyle Medicine—that is a formal specialty in using food to treat disease.

2018年12月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B

People were coming out of a formal and almost victorian attitude, and you really felt anything was possible.

2017年6月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section C

The food-as-medicine movement has been around for decades, but it's making progress as physicians and medical institutions make food a formal part of treatment, rather than relying solely on medications.

2018年12月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B

However, the agreement specifies that there is no formal distinction between developed and developing nations in their responsibility to cut emissions, effectively ignoring historical emissions.

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

And now, if you'll walk this way, ladies and gentlemen, the next room we're going to see is the room in which the family used to hold their formal dinner parties and even occasionally entertain heads of state and royalty.

出自-2013年12月听力原文

It's difficult to estimate the number of youngsters involved in home schooling where children are not sent to school and receive their formal education from one or both parents

出自-2013年12月听力原文

Some parents who withdraw their children from the schools in favor of home schooling have an inadequate educational background and insufficient formal training to provide a satisfactory education for their children.

出自-2013年12月听力原文

I'd rather not make it something formal and structured.

出自-2012年12月听力原文

He wishes to receive formal training in gardening

出自-2012年12月听力原文

And for another most scientists do not receive formal training in science communication.

2018年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C

However, the agreement specifies that there is no formal distinction between developed and developing nations in their responsibility to cut emissions, effectively ignoring historical emissions.

2016年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C

Smith says he'll provide services ranging from formal seminars to on-farm workshops on holistic management, to one-on-one hand-holding and an almost 24/7 phone hotline for farmers who are converting.

2019年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B

We believe that at least part of the problem lies in places other than the interaction between scientists and members of the media, and exists because for one thing we underestimate how difficult it is for scientists to communicate effectively with a dive

2018年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C

It matters as much as a formal talk.

2018年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读D 选项

Office designers' response to this change has been to move open-plan areas to more desirable locations within the office and crate fewer formal private offices.

2015年高考英语上海卷 选词填空 原文

We are thus led to distinguish, within the broad educational process which we have been so far considering, a more formal kind of education -- that of direct tuition or schooling.

出自-2009年考研翻译原文

In undeveloped social groups, we find very little formal teaching and training.

出自-2009年考研翻译原文

Thus poor countries might not be able to escape their poverty traps without political changes that may be possible only with broader formal education.

出自-2009年考研阅读原文

They also focused on important rituals that appeared to preserve a people’s social structure, such as initiation ceremonies that formally signify children’s entrance into adulthood.

出自-2009年考研阅读原文

The relationship between formal education and economic growth in poor countries is widely misunderstood by economists and politicians alike.

出自-2009年考研阅读原文

A lack of formal education, however, doesn't constrain the ability of the developing world's workforce to substantially improve productivity for the forested future.

出自-2009年考研阅读原文

Rather, we ascribe meanings to test on the basis of interaction between what we might call textual and contextual material: between kinds of organization or patterning we perceive in a text’s formal structures and various kinds of background, social knowledge, belief and attitude that we bring to the text.

出自-2015年考研阅读原文

No matter how formal or informal the work environment, the way you present yourself has an impact.

出自-2016年考研阅读原文

Millennials, it seems, face the paradox of being the least formal generation yet the most conscious of style and personal branding.

出自-2016年考研阅读原文

A lack of formal education, however, doesn't constrain the ability of the developing world's workforce to substantially improve productivity for the foreseeable future.

2009年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

millennials, it seems, face the paradox of being the least formal generation yet the most conscious of style and personal branding.

2016年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

英英释义

Adjective
  • 1. being in accord with established forms and conventions and requirements (as e.g. of formal dress);

    "pay one's formal respects"

    "formal dress"

    "a formal ball"

    "the requirement was only formal and often ignored"

    "a formal education"

  • 2. characteristic of or befitting a person in authority;

    "formal duties"

    "an official banquet"

  • 3. (of spoken and written language) adhering to traditional standards of correctness and without casual, contracted, and colloquial forms;

    "the paper was written in formal English"

  • 4. represented in simplified or symbolic form

  • 5. logically deductive;

    "formal proof"

  • 6. refined or imposing in manner or appearance; befitting a royal court;

    "a courtly gentleman"

反义词

adj.正式的;拘谨的

informalcasual