Partners of employees are invited as a matter of form.

按惯例，雇员的配偶受到了邀请。

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The goodwife touched, with a perishing hope, and rather as a matter of form, upon the subject of cooking.

主妇带着一种近乎绝望的心情，谈到了做饭的问题，这只是形式上的谈论。

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You have already got the job but I must interview the other candidates as a matter of form.

你已经得到了这份工作，但例行公事我必须还要面试其他求职者。

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It is boldly heretical in that it posits the existence of the atom as a basic form of matter as well as the non-existence of gods or God.

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Rather, this is the state intervening, with a very heavy hand, to promote the interests of a particular class of economic players, or promoting a particular form of economic activity, as a matter of policy.

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The vast majority of tax scholars and policy experts agree that awarding a super-low tax rate to this one form of labor income is completely unjustified as a policy matter.

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