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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "After Captain Hobson took formal possession, and became governor, nine colonies were founded at various times between 1840 and 1862, in the most favorable situations.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Here on the moor we are homely folk and do not wait for formal introductions.
-- The more formal we made the visit the less information we might obtain.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After a formal introduction by Gania (who greeted his mother very shortly, took no notice of his sister, and immediately marched Ptitsin out of the room), Nina Al-exandrovna addressed a few kind words to the prince and forthwith requested Colia, who had just appeared at the door, to show him to the ' middle room.'
-- The athlete's lips curled disdainfully, and without honouring his adversary with a formal denial, he exhibited, as if by accident, that peculiarly Russian object an enormous fist, clenched, muscular, and covered with red hairs!The sight of this pre-eminently national attribute was enough to convince anybody, without words, that it was a serious matter for those who should happen to come into contact with it.
-- You see, prince, I'll tell you privately, Evgenie and ourselves have not said a word yet, we have no formal understanding, we are in no way bound on either side, but the word may be said very soon, don't you see, VERY soon, and all this is most injurious, and is meant to be so.
-- And it was not until the third day that the formal recon-ciliation between the prince and the Epanchins took place, as said before.
-- Of course nobody would listen to him for a long time; he would come and tell his story one day and be refused promptly; another day he would be fed on false promises; again he would be treated harshly; then he would be told to sign some documents; then he would sign the paper and hand it in, and they would refuse to receive it, and tell him to file a formal petition.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Achilles answered, 'Ulysses, noble son of Laertes, I should give you formal notice plainly and in all fixity of purpose that there be no more of this cajoling, from what-soever quarter it may come.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When it was ended, a general bustle announced that it was to be imme-diately succeeded by a solemn and formal assemblage of the nation.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The old man's illness had not lasted many days when he took formal possession of the premises and all upon them, in virtue of certain legal powers to that effect, which few understood and none presumed to call in question.
-- Short Trotters however, being a compound name, inconvenient of use in friendly dialogue, the gentleman on whom it had been bestowed was known among his intimates either as 'Short,' or 'Trotters,' and was seldom accosted at full length as Short Trotters, except in formal conversations and on occasions of ceremony.
-- Having disposed of this temperate refreshment, she arose from her stool, tied her papers into a formal packet with red tape, and taking them under her arm, marched out of the office.
-- Having, as it were, taken formal possession of his clerkship in virtue of these proceedings, he opened the window and leaned negligently out of it until a beer-boy happened to pass, whom he commanded to set down his tray and to serve him with a pint of mild porter, which he drank upon the spot and promptly paid for, with the view of breaking ground for a system of future credit and opening a correspondence tending thereto, without loss of time.
-- With no more formal leave-taking or explanation, he clutched the portmanteau, shut the door on his attendant, and climbing on the desk, and rolling himself up as round as a hedgehog, in an old boat-cloak, fell fast asleep.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He took a sheet of paper, and quickly swallowing some uninteresting, formal words, and emphasizing others, he began to read: "To the Department of Cassation, etc., etc., Katherine, etc.
-- When Nekhludoff arrived at the prison, the formal delivery and acceptance of the departing convicts, which began at four in the morning, were still going on.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He seemed, too, to be making some objections to which the lieutenant replied by formal assurances.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We shall be sitting down to eat in a minute, and it's a formal occasion, darling, isn't it?"
-- He sat and wrote out his formal resignation.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On every formal visit a child ought to be of the party, by way of provision for discourse.
-- If she had only made me a formal courtesy, for instance, without saying a word, and never after had took any notice of me, and never looked at me in a pleasant way you know what I mean if I had been treated in that forbidding sort of way, I should have gave it all up in despair.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It began in the most formal manner and was sharply and coldly worded throughout.
-- It bore the imprint of the law offices of McGregor, James and Hay, and with a very formal "Dear Sir," and "We beg to state," went on to inform him briefly that they had been retained by Mrs. Julia Hurstwood to adjust certain matters which related to her sustenance and property rights, and would he kindly call and see them about the matter at once.
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