formal是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 正式的； 形式的，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The likeness passed away, like a breath along the surface of the gaunt pier-glass behind her, on the frame of which, a hospital procession of negro cupids, several headless and all cripples, were offering black baskets of Dead Sea fruit to black divinities of the feminine gender-and he made his formal bow to Miss Manette.
-- 'I kiss your hand, miss,' said Mr. Lorry, with the man-ners of an earlier date, as he made his formal bow again, and took his seat.
-- Accordingly, Mr. Stryver inaugurated the Long Vacation with a formal proposal to take Miss Manette to Vauxhall 201Gardens; that failing, to Ranelagh; that unaccountably fail-ing too, it behoved him to present himself in Soho, and there declare his noble mind.
-- Enough!Now, my dear Lu-cie,' drawing his arm soothingly round her waist, 'I hear them moving in the next room, and Miss Pross and I, as two formal folks of business, are anxious not to lose the fi-nal opportunity of saying something to you that you wish to hear.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Apart from formal divorce, One might still do like Karibanov, Paskudin, and that good fellow Dram--that is, separate from one's wife," he went on thinking, when he had regained his composure.
-- Countess Lidia Ivanovna had hinted that this was the best way out of his position, and of late the obtaining of divorces had been brought to such perfection that Alexey Alexandrovitch saw a possibility of overcoming the formal difficulties.
-- "Yes, we are too formal here," she said, as it were apologizing for her magnificence.
-- The dinner, the wine, the decoration of the table were all very good; but it was all like what Darya Alexandrovna had seen at formal dinners and balls which of late years had become quite unfamiliar to her; it all had the same impersonal and constrained character, and so on an ordinary day and in a little circle of friends it made a disagreeable impression on her.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was very much like prayer, though certainly there was no formal invocation, no consciousness of a Supreme Being--other than Max Gottlieb.
-- The skipper reassured them, in a formal address.
-- How could he, even in the crisis of an epidemic, invite the formal Twyfords to invite Leora?
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：
-- Well, then she gave the I O U by way of payment to this Tchebarov, and without hesitation he made a formal demand for payment.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A Last Retrospect 7PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITIONI DO not find it easy to get sufficiently far away from this Book, inthe first sensations of having finished it, to refer to it with thecomposure which this formal heading would seem to require.
-- LONDON October, 1850PREFACE TO THE 'CHARLES DICKENS' EDITIONI REMARKED in the original Preface to this Book, that I did notfind it easy to get sufficiently far away from it, in the firstsensations of having finished it, to refer to it with the composurewhich this formal heading would seem to require.
-- He walked me up to my room slowly and gravely- I am certain hehad a delight in that formal parade of executing justice- and whenwe got there, suddenly twisted my head under his arm.
-- says Mr. Chillip, MissMurdstone merely answers with a frown and a formal bend; Mr.Chillip, discomfited, goes into a corner, keeping me with him, andopens his mouth no more.
-- I examined the will with the deepest attention, pronounced itperfectly formal in all respects, made a pencil-mark or so in themargin, and thought it rather extraordinary that I knew so much.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It must not be: and yet the danger of a renewal of the acquaintance! After much thinking, she could determine on nothing better, than Harriet's returning the visit; but in a way that, if they had understanding, should convince them that it was to be only a formal acquaintance.
-- They were called on to share in the awkwardness of a rather long interval be-tween the courses, and obliged to be as formal and as orderly as the others; but when the table was again safely covered, 264 Emmawhen every corner dish was placed exactly right, and occu-pation and ease were generally restored, Emma said, 'The arrival of this pianoforte is decisive with me.
-- Knightley;' and, from habit, it has not so very formal a sound. And yet it is formal.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was a formal notice by letter from him that he should not renew his engagement with her for the following Lady-day.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It irritated her so much that during one formal call she apedGerald's brogue to her aunt's distress.
-- Nor would they go through the formal and protracted courtshipswhich good manners had prescribed before the war.
-- He had so many hats, wide Panamas for summer, tallbeavers for formal occasions, hunting hats, slouch hats of tan and black and blue.
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