寻求计划获得批准纯粹是一个形式上的问题，没有人会认真反对的。

Getting approval for the plan is a purely formal matter; nobody will seriously oppose it.

《牛津词典》

就像是她改变了（绘画的）风格，让它不再只是对总统和祖先的一些形式上的描绘。

It is like she transformed the genre, it is not just formal depictions of presidents and ancestors any more.

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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。

The goodwife touched, with a perishing hope, and rather as a matter of form, upon the subject of cooking.

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But a regime is more than simply okay? a set of formal structures and institutions okay?

但政体不仅是,一组形式上的架构或机构？

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That's sort of turning it on.

在某种形式上就是打开了他的开关

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