formal

英 ['fɔːml] 美 ['fɔːrml]

• adj. 正式的；正规的；形式的；公开的；拘谨的；有条理的

双解释义

adj. (形容词)

1. 正式的

   approved

2. 礼仪上的,形式上的

   ceremonious; ceremonial

详尽释义

adj. 形容词

1. 正式的，正规的
2. 形式上的，拘泥形式的
3. 外形的，表面的
4. 刻板的，拘谨的
5. 有条理的，整齐的，布置井然的
6. 合乎格式的
7. 【文】规范的，合乎规矩的
8. 方式上的，做法上的
9. 礼节上的

n. 名词

1. 正式的社交活动，须穿礼服的社交集会
2. <口>夜礼服
3. 【化】甲缩醛，缩甲醛，甲醛缩二甲醇

英英释义

Noun:

1. a lavish dance requiring formal attire

2. a gown for evening wear

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"
   

例句

用作形容词 (adj.)

1. At the formal party I felt very awkward and out of place.
   在正式的舞会上，我感到局促不安，很不自在。
2. This job doesn't require any formal training.
   这种工作不需要任何正规训练。
3. There is only a formal resemblance between the two systems; they are in fact radically different.
   这两种体系只是在表面上有某种相似之处，其实根本不同。
4. The writer made a formal denial of the hearsay.
   这位作家公开否认了这一传闻。
5. He is very formal with everyone and he never joins in a laugh.
   他对任何人都很拘谨,从不跟人说笑。
6. They are very formal in their business transactions.
   他们的商务议事很有条理。

常见句型

用作形容词 (adj.)

用作定语

～+ n.

1. You must wear formal dress.
   你必须穿礼服。
2. Sometimes formal English and informal English must be carefully distinguished.
   有时候正式英语与非正式英语要十分小心地加以区分。
3. They have much formal school training.
   他们接受了许多正规的学校教育。
4. He paid a formal call on the American ambassador, in return of the ambassador's formal visit earlier in the year.
   他正式拜访了美国大使,作为对美国大使今年早些时候访问的回访。
5. There's only a formal likeness between the two brothers.
   这两兄弟仅外表相似。

用作表语

S+be+～

1. Business letters must always be formal.
   商务信件必须很正式。
2. The play, whose style is rigidly formal, is typical of the period.
   这剧本是那个时期的典型作品,风格拘谨刻板。

经典引文

• Young ladies..wear short formals, and old ladies wear floor-length evening dresses.

  出自： M. Beadle

• She looked sufficiently virginal to be attending her first formal.

  出自： A. York

• Deceit is the formal, constituent reason of hypocrisy.

  出自： R. South

词汇搭配

用作形容词 (adj.)

～+名词

• formal call 正式的拜访
• formal dress 礼服
• formal party 正式的欢迎会
• formal logic 形式逻辑
• formal resemblance 形式上的相似
• formal schooling 正规学校教育
• formal training 正规训练
• formal written English 正式的书面英语

副词+～

• merely formal 完全流于形式的

～+介词

• formal with 对…拘谨的
• formal with one's colleagues 和同事们在一起很拘谨

词源解说

• ☆ 14世纪晚期进入英语，直接源自古典拉丁语的formalis，意为形式。

近反义词

【近义词】

• official
• stately

【反义词】

• casual
• easygoing
• informal