formal
adj. 正式的; 正規的; 方式上的; 整齊的
Formal speech or behaviour is very correct and serious rather than relaxed and friendly, and is used especially in official situations.
He wrote a very formal letter of apology to Douglas...
他給道格拉斯寫了一封非常正式的道歉信。
Business relationships are necessarily a bit more formal.
商業關係有必要更正式一些。
A formal action, statement, or request is an official one.
UN officials said a formal request was passed to American authorities...
聯合國官員稱正式請求已向美國當局轉達。
No formal announcement had been made.
尚無任何官方宣告。
Formal occasions are special occasions at which people wear smart clothes and behave according to a set of accepted rules.
One evening the film company arranged a formal dinner after the play.
一天晚上,電影公司在演出結束後安排了一個正式的晚宴。
Formal clothes are very smart clothes that are suitable for formal occasions.
They wore ordinary ties instead of the more formal high collar and cravat.
他們打著普通的領帶,而不是更為正式的高領領結。
Something that is done, written, or studied in a formal way has a very ordered, organized method or style.
This does not encourage the child to analyse the environment in a formal way...
這並不能鼓勵孩子有條理地分析周圍的環境。
Classic Greek drama was written in verse, usually in an elevated and formal style.
古典希臘戲劇以韻文寫成,通常用詞講究、結構整齊。
Formal education or training is given officially, usually in a school, college, or university.
Although his formal education stopped after primary school, he was an avid reader...
儘管小學畢業後就再沒有受過正規的教育,他卻十分愛讀書。
Leroy didn't have any formal dance training.
勒羅伊沒受過任何正規的舞蹈訓練。
A formal garden or room is arranged in a very regular and controlled way, especially according to certain rules of design.
...a formal herb garden...
佈局勻稱的草藥園
The Coronata wallpaper lends a formal air to the dining room.
科羅娜塔牆紙給餐廳增添了一種整齊有致的氣氛。
1. being in accord with established forms and conventions and requirements (as e.g. of formal dress);
2. characteristic of or befitting a person in authority;
3. (of spoken and written language) adhering to traditional standards of correctness and without casual, contracted, and colloquial forms;
4. represented in simplified or symbolic form
5. logically deductive;
6. refined or imposing in manner or appearance; befitting a royal court;
Formal authorization for the trip was given last week.
這次行程上週得到正式批准.
The dinner is formal, if you don't wear the correct clothes you'll stick out like a sore thumb.
宴會是正式的, 如果你著裝不當,會顯得很不得體.
Sometimes formal English and informal English must be carefully distinguished.
有時候正式英語與非正式英語要十分小心地加以區分.
His manner was stiffly formal.
他的舉止十分僵硬.
The occasion requires formal dress.
這場合要求穿禮服.