0 public or official -- 公開的；正式的
I am the formal leader of the project but the everyday management is in the hands of my assistant. 我是這個專案計劃名義上的領導人，但日常管理都由我的助理負責。
a formal announcement 正式聲明
formal procedures 正式的程式
1 Formal language, clothes, and behaviour are suitable for serious or official occasions. -- （語言、服裝和行為）莊重的，正規的，適合正式場合的
2 Formal education or training is received in a school or college. -- （教育或訓練）正規的
Tom had little formal education. 湯姆沒怎麽受過正規教育。
3 A formal garden is carefully designed and kept according to a plan, and it is not allowed to grow naturally. -- 精心佈置的，佈置井然的
4 a dance at which women wear fashionable, expensive dresses and men wear tuxedos or similar clothes -- 一種女士身穿時髦昂貴服裝、男士身穿燕尾服或類似服裝起舞的舞蹈
Such passing back and forth between the formal and actual is precisely what formalism cannot allow.
While it certainly recognizes formal complexity in the past, it tends to treat its presence there as anomalous or illicit.
Anthropomorphized abstractions who enjoy the power of human speech entail the formal engagement of prosopopeia.
Tropes and figures, as discreet formal entities, can be likened to texts.
The tropes of contraction are all formal or poetic mechanisms.
Clearly a psychoanalytical program of inquiry is distinct from the formal interest of this study, but it does provide some valuable insights.
The so-named figurational enactments of these categories, however, provide an approximate minimum from which to begin the thinking needed for a formal taxonomy.
All epistemic practices involve power, knowledge, and meaning - they all depend on technique, formal distinctions, and practical contexts that situate theory and consequence.
