Millennials, it seems, face the paradox of being the least formal generation yet the most conscious of style and personal branding.

千禧一代似乎面临着这样一个矛盾：一方面，他们代表着最无拘无束的一代，然而另一方面，他们却最注重风格和个人品牌。

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A survey by American Councils for International Education showed that there were 227,086 Chinese learners across the formal US education system, making Chinese the third most popular language being studied.

美国国际教育委员会的一项调查显示，在美国的整个正规教育体系中，有227，086名学习中文的人，使中文成为第三大最受欢迎的语言学习。

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Don't know details yet, but a formal announcement is being made at a big event next week in Durham.

目前尚不知细节，但本周会在北卡罗来纳州达勒姆的一个大活动上正式宣布。

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So with apologies for being a bit more boring for twenty minutes, let's do something we'll call formal stuff.

抱歉接下来的二十多钟分可能有点枯燥,我们来做点正经事

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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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No I don't, nor do we have any recollection of that sort of formal request being made.

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They were accused of involvement in awarding lucrative contracts to foreign companies without proper consultation or formal contracts being signed.

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The council said the Court of Appeal's decision meant it could now consider the application, subject to no further formal challenge being made.

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