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。
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- No formal Rosaries now but the same words over and over: "Mother of God, don't let her die!I'llbe so good if you don't let her die!Please, don't let her die!"
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- These extensive arrangements occasioned us to be cut off unceremoniously in respect of breakfast; "for I ain't," said Mrs. Joe,--"I ain't a going to have no formal cramming and busting and washing up now, with what I've got before me, I promise you!"
-- Some ancient trees before the house were still cut into fashions as formal and unnatural as the hoops and wigs and stiff skirts; but their own allotted places in the great procession of the dead were not far off, and they would soon drop into them and go the silent way of the rest.
-- I saw in this the reason for my being staved off so long and the reason for my late guardian's declining to commit himself to the formal knowledge of such a scheme.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- While he and I were thus employed, another horse came up; who applying himself to the first in a very formal manner, they gently struck each other's right hoof before, neigh-ing several times by turns, and varying the sound, which seemed to be almost articulate.
-- For instance, a crew of pirates are driven by a storm they know not whither; at length a boy discovers land from the topmast; they go on shore to rob and plunder, they see a harmless people, are entertained with kindness; they give the country a new name; they take formal possession of it for their king; they set up a rotten plank, or a stone, for a memorial; they murder two or three dozen of the natives, bring away a couple more, by force, for a sample; return home, and get their pardon.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the formal drawing-room of Stone Lodge, standing on the hearthrug, warming himself before the fire, Mr. Bounderby delivered some observations to Mrs. Gradgrind on the circumstance of its being his birthday.
-- The same Hermitical state of mind led to her renunciation of made dishes and wines at dinner, until fairly commanded by Mr. Bounderby to take them; when she said, 'Indeed you are very good, sir;' and departed from a resolution of which she had made rather formal and public announcement, to 'wait for the simple mutton.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I must refer you,' returned Mr Barnacle, ringing the bell, 'to the Department itself for a formal answer to that inquiry.'
-- Mrs General being an article of that lustrous surface which suggests that it is worth any money, he made a formal proposal to be allowed to have the honour and pleasure of regarding her as a member of his family.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A formal apology will make him see how foolish he is, and bring him down quite amiable.
-- She hated calls of the formal sort, and never made any till Amy compelled her with a bargain, bribe, or promise.
-- Aunt March likes to have us pay her the compliment of coming in style, and making a formal call.
-- When he offered her his arm, she took it with a look that filled him with delight, but when he asked if she missed him, she gave such a chilly, formal reply that despair fell upon him.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Perhaps the only formal whaling code authorized by legislative enactment, was that of Holland.
-- But no formal salutation was exchanged.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'It's very much blotted, sir,' said the farmer of infants; 'but it's formal enough, I dare say.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When at length they arose to take leave, Mrs. Bennet was most pressingly civil in her hope of seeing the whole fam-ily soon at Longbourn, and addressed herself especially to Mr. Bingley, to assure him how happy he would make them by eating a family dinner with them at any time, without the ceremony of a formal invitation.
-- When she did come, it was very evident that she had no pleasure in it; she made a slight, formal apology, for not calling before, said not a word of wishing to see me again, and was in every respect so altered a creature, that when she went away I was perfectly resolved to continue the acquaintance no longer.
-- She saw instantly that her cousin's manners were not altered by his marriage; his formal ci-vility was just what it had been, and he detained her some minutes at the gate to hear and satisfy his inquiries after all her family.
-- It seemed like wilful ill-nature, or a voluntary penance, for on these occasions it was not merely a few formal inquiries and an awkward pause and then away, but he actually thought it necessary to turn back and walk with her.
-- Having been frequently in company with him since her re-turn, agitation was pretty well over; the agitations of formal partiality entirely so.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This they all engaged to do, and entered into writings or covenants to do so; and I made a formal will, disposing of my plantation and effects in case of my death, making the captain of the ship that had saved my life, as be-fore, my universal heir, but obliging him to dispose of my effects as I had directed in my will; one half of the produce being to himself, and the other to be shipped to England.
-- As there was a door or entrance there into my cave, I made a formal framed door-case, and a door to it, of boards, and set it up in the passage, a little within the en-trance; and, causing the door to open in the inside, I barred it up in the night, taking in my ladders, too; so that Friday could no way come at me in the inside of my innermost wall, without making so much noise in getting over that it must needs awaken me; for my first wall had now a complete roof over it of long poles, covering all my tent, and leaning up to the side of the hill; which was again laid across with smaller sticks, instead of laths, and then thatched over a great thick-ness with the rice- straw, which was strong, like reeds; and at the hole or place which was left to go in or out by the lad-der I had placed a kind of trap- door, which, if it had been attempted on the outside, would not have opened at all, but would have fallen down and made a great noise - as to weap-ons, I took them all into my side every night.
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