This ensures there is a proper respect for the formality of the interface in your SOA, and will help prevent making changes to services that could inadvertently break consumers of your new service.

这样可确保SOA中适当考虑接口的正式性，并将帮助防止可能会导致新服务的使用者被意外破坏的更改。

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The vote in the Senate was always a formality, so much so that a large number of the senators had already left for the half-term break and voted on this bill by proxy.

议会的投票通常只是一个形式，大量议员已经离开进行中期休假，都是以委托的形式进行投票。

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But we wanted to take it further, to break through the formality of such strategies and find a way to engage more people.

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