Feedback to the developers should be less formal, however: this is not a development stage where copious amounts of documentation and bug tracking is required.

程序员的反应可能是形式上的东西尽可能地少一些，但是这不符合需要产生大量文档并且进行错误追踪的开发阶段的要求。

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The findings also revealed that workers who expected to be taken care of by their children were less likely to contribute to the formal pension system than those who didn't.

结果还发现，那些指望将来由子女照看的劳动者为正式养老金体制缴费的可能性小于没有这种指望的人。

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These estimates can be more or less formal depending on the team's experience and the project's degree of novelty.

依据团队的经验和项目的新颖性程度，这些估计差不多是正式的。

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But we could, for example, look at a case where we have several different structures that look pretty good, and the one we want to determine as being the lowest energy structure is the one in which the absolute values of the formal charges are going to be lower, so essentially that they have less charge separation.

但是我们可能，比如，遇到一种情况,有好几个候选的路易斯结构看起来都挺好的，这时候我们就需要,通过比较哪个形式电荷的绝对值更低,来决定哪个结构的能量更低，本质上这个结构中分开的电荷更少。

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There are fixed dates for the tests for 11- and 14-year-olds, but test dates are not given out in advance for seven-year-olds, for whom the experience is supposed to be less formal.

BBC: Tests - a guide for parents

Some customers may not be able to comply and may be forced into using less formal and more costly intermediaries such as cheque-cashing services.

ECONOMIST: Retail banks

For that reason, less-formal processes may sometimes be more effective and timely.

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