Visitors at the court of the king are received with formality.

拜访王宫的人受到了拘泥形式。

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She greeted him with stiff formality.

她拘谨地按礼节向他致意。

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Black is associated with power, elegance, formality, death, evil, and mystery.

黑色与权力、优雅、拘谨、死亡、魔鬼和神秘相关联。

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So this is a little bit of math, a little formality, but is everyone okay with that?

这里只是稍微用了点数学符号,还有简单的公式,大家都听懂了吗

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Certain statements, by Mr Cheney in particular, tempt the thought that sometimes the administration could not even be bothered with this formality.

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The two sides dispensed with that formality after a mere 12 months.

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Employees will turn up to work at predictable hours five days a week, and will comport themselves with greater formality than before.

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