Partners of employees are invited as a matter of form.
按惯例，雇员的配偶受到了邀请。
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。
It is merely a matter of form.
这仅仅是形式问题。
那只是形式上的问题。
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。
Although she is not entitled to attend the dinner, I think she should be invited as a matter of form.
尽管她没有资格参加这次晚宴，我认为出于礼节还是应该邀请她。
Etiquette codifies behavior that is merely a matter of form and hence apt to have a trivial impact on others.
礼仪所规定的行为只是礼节问题，因此对人们只有轻微的影响。
For example, the cooperative sense is weak; the cooperation is only a matter of form; teacher's foundation can't be brought in to play effectively.
但我国目前合作学习还存在一些问题，如合作观念淡薄，合作流于形式，教师的作用不能很好地发挥等。
Although no form of matter yet discovered, moves as fast as or faster than light, scientific experiments has already confirmed that accelerated motion causes a traveler's time to be stretched.
虽然还没有发现一种速度与光一样或比光还快的物质，但科学实验已经证实，加速运动会延长旅行者的时间。
Although no form of matter yet discovered, moves as fast as or faster than light, scientific experiments have already confirmed that accelerated motion causes a traveler's time to be stretched.
虽然还没有发现一种速度与光一样或比光还快的物质，但科学实验已经证实，加速运动会延长旅行者的时间。
A recent study seems to point to the fact that when matter and anti-matter were first created, there were slightly more particles of matter, which allowed the universe we all live in to form.
最近的一项研究似乎指出了一个事实，当物质和反物质最初被创造出来的时候，有更多的物质粒子，这使得我们生活的宇宙得以形成。
The widely celebrated discovery indicated that a mysterious and invisible form of energy is counteracting the force of gravity, pushing matter apart at an ever faster rate.
这项广受赞誉的发现显示出，一股神秘的、看不见的能量形式在和重力抗衡，以更快的速度把物质分开。
They only had the occasion in a kind of formless matter upon which they could adopt and impose any form they took.
他们仅有的是，在一种无形物质中的机遇，在其中他们能采纳，并强加任何他们喜欢的形式。
Any pain you create for any other form of life, no matter what it is, is a pain that you are creating for yourself.
你们对任何其他形式生命所造成的任何痛苦，无论是什么，终究是你们为自己制造的痛苦。
Biochar is a form of charcoal made by liberating the energy from plant matter or animal waste using pyrolysis.
生物炭是木炭的一种形式，它在高温分解植物或者动物粪便释放能量的同时制得。
Dark matter is a form of stuff that does not interact with light, so cannot be seen, but makes its presence felt by exerting a gravitational pull on normal matter.
暗物质是一种不与光发生作用的物质，因而不可见。但是暗物质又是确实存在的，它与可见物质之间产生的引力效应证实了这一点。
Baboons most often form close bonds with relatives, the researchers said, and the stability of those connections is partly a matter of luck since lions and leopards often prey upon baboons.
研究者表示，狒狒通常会与亲属建立亲密的关系，不过由于狮子和豹子的捕食，使得这种关系的稳定性含有一定的运气成分。
Under a 1986 law, money has to be raised for a purpose, such as a building.However, this is a matter of substance rather than form.
根据1986年的法律，筹集资金需要一定的理由，比如修一栋楼之类的。然而，这只是其实质并非表面。
This form of matter is characterized by having a large positive pressure.
这种物质形式的特点是具有很大的正压。
And, for that matter, a related form of bigotry has always driven the whole "local" model for local radio and newspaper coverage.
并且，就此而言，对于地方无线电广播和报纸报道，与此相关的一个因素——固执一直驱动着整个“地方”模式。
Since P1 and P2 were already in Normal form, the combining process is simply a matter of taking an assertion from each alternative and forming new alternatives that contain all the assertions.
由于P1和P2已经是标准化格式，组合过程只是简单的从每个替代中取出断言，最后形成一个包含所有断言的新的替代。
In fact, I don't really think of cancer as a disease as much as an alternative form of living matter.
事实上，我更加认为癌症是生活的一种代替方式，而不是一种疾病。
Whether you choose a noun or a verb is a matter of preference, but it is recommended that you stick to one form instead of using both.
选择名词还是动词取决于个人偏好，但建议仅仅使用一种形式，而不是同时使用二者。
Depressingly, according to one study, most people don't even give each other the benefit of an exchange of words and form enduring impressions in a matter of milliseconds.
郁闷的是，据某项研究所述，在大约一毫秒内，大多数人甚至还没开始互相交谈时，长久的印象就已经形成了。
That steady accumulation of muck traps tiny organisms called foraminifera, plant matter and other substances that form a natural record of sea level rise.
那些污泥坑中被称之为有孔虫的微小生物以及一些植物等其他物质不断堆积，形成了对海平面上升情况的自然记录。
It's just a matter of creating a form with default values in the input fields.
这只需使用输入字段中的默认值创建一张表单。
However, this is a matter of substance rather than form.
然而，这只是其实质并非表面。
It will therefore be possible to work out which direction the neutralino that caused it to recoil came from and thus engage in a form of dark-matter astronomy.
由此就可以计算出发生碰撞的中轻微子的来向，甚至产生一门暗物质天文学。
It will therefore be possible to work out which direction the neutralino that caused it to recoil came from and thus engage in a form of dark-matter astronomy.
由此就可以计算出发生碰撞的中轻微子的来向，甚至产生一门暗物质天文学。
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