formality是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 礼节， 正式，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then he finished the letter, and gave it to Glenarvan to sign, who went through the necessary formality as well as he could, and closed and sealed the letter.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You spoke of formality just now, apropos of the inquiry, you know.
-- An examining lawyer cannot be bounded by formality at every step.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her voice was raised questioningly, as though she hung on Gerald's assent to her plan, a mere formality but onedear to the heart of Gerald.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Again among the tiers of shipping, in and out, avoiding rusty chain-cables frayed hempen hawsers and bobbing buoys, sinking for the moment floating broken baskets, scattering floating chips of wood and shaving, cleaving floating scum of coal, in and out, under the figure-head of the John of Sunderland making a speech to the winds (as is done by many Johns), and the Betsy of Yarmouth with a firm formality of bosom and her knobby eyes starting two inches out of her head; in and out, hammers going in ship-builders' yards, saws going at timber, clashing engines going at things unknown, pumps going in leaky ships, capstans going, ships going out to sea, and unintelligible sea-creatures roaring curses over the bulwarks at respondent lightermen, in and out,--out at last upon the clearer river, where the ships' boys might take their fenders in, no longer fishing in troubled waters with them over the side, and where the festooned sails might fly out to the wind.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But, as to the formality of taking possession in my sover-eign's name, it never came once into my thoughts; and if it had, yet, as my affairs then stood, I should perhaps, in point of prudence and self-preservation, have put it off to a better opportunity.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Bill Sikes no sooner heard the account of the expedition delivered, than he very hastily called up the white dog, and, putting on his hat, expeditiously departed: without devoting any time to the formality of wishing the company good-morning.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They were then, with no other delay than his pointing out the neatness of the entrance, taken into the house; and as soon as they were in the parlour, he wel-comed them a second time, with ostentatious formality to his humble abode, and punctually repeated all his wife's of-fers of refreshment.
-- Lydia laughed, and said: 'Aye, that is just like your formality and discretion.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The purity of her life, the formality of her notions, her ignorance of the world every thing was against me.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She concluded by thanking him for his kindness in a crude way, then puzzled over the formality of signing her name, and finally decided upon the severe, winding up with a "Very truly," which she subsequently changed to "Sincerely."
-- The members of the opera company made her acquaintance without the formality of introduction.
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