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formally

/fawr-muh-lee/US // ˈfɔr mə li //

正式的,正规的,正式,正式地

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Definitions

adv.副词 adverb
  1. 1
    • : in a formal manner: The store was formally opened on Tuesday.
    • : as regards form; in form: It may be formally correct, but it is substantively wrong.

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Examples

  • The five-member board will formally reach a conclusion about the causes of the crash and possibly issue recommendations to the Federal Aviation Administration and helicopter companies to avoid similar crashes.

  • He believes raising children with fear, dressing them formally and ordering their attention with a whistle is how to raise successful young men and women.

  • The board was not supposed to formally vote on the timeline until its next meeting, scheduled for Thursday night.

  • The FDA agreed in December to allow anyone one who could to extract that bonus dose, and as of early January are formally counting some vials as containing six doses.

  • A fifth Republican, former Carlyle Group executive Glenn Youngkin, has filed paperwork to establish a campaign and indicated he will formally announce his bid soon.

  • Andrew and Fergie separated in 1992 after six years of marriage and formally divorced in 1996.

  • He was a leading presidential contender in 1988 and 1992, but never formally entered the race.

  • After fighting alongside her brothers for years in the 1980s, she demanded the women fighters be formally recognized.

  • He was formally certified as a CIA interrogator only in April 2003.

  • The United States has not formally declared war since World War II.

  • In accordance with that statement, he had decided that on the next day his son should be formally "invested" with the top-knot.

  • October 15, 1612, he was formally appointed commandant in New France.

  • In a way it is my duty to introduce you formally, although it would be more so if they had done anything for me since my return.

  • I wonder if you'd mind very much if I called one day to thank you formally for the lesson you gave me in pronunciation?

  • Edward received it in his camp, and in reply formally deduced his claim to the superiority, from Brute the Trojan.