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小词详解 | formative
formative 英 [ˈfɔːmətɪv] 美 [ˈfɔːrmətɪv]
Social scientists fret that Gen Z-ers, having spent their formative years doomscrolling and suffering from FOMO, are now gripped by an epidemic of anxiety and depression.
社会科学家担心,在“末日刷刷刷”中成长起来且饱受错失恐惧症折磨的Z世代如今正广泛受到焦虑和抑郁的困扰。
——《经济学人》My formative years in journalism were spent in San Francisco, where I had an up-close view of the extraordinary wealth created during this era of capitalism.
我在旧金山度过了新闻工作的成长期,在那里我近距离目睹了这个资本主义时代创造的巨额财富。
——《纽约时报》
[形容词] 有助于形成某个事物的,尤其是对一个人的发展有着深远影响的
仍处于草创阶段
still in a formative stage童年性格形成的关键时期
the vital formative years of childhood宽容的老师对于学生性格形成的影响
the formative influence of a lenient teacher
构词要素
a formative element
Warm with the fancies of youth, pretty with the insipid prettiness of the formative period, possessed of a figure promising eventual shapeliness and an eye alight with certain native intelligence, she was a fair example of the middle American class—two generations removed from the emigrant.
她充满着年轻人的热烈幻想。虽然漂亮,她还只是一个正在发育阶段的美人胎子。不过从她的身段已经可以看出将来发育成熟时的美妙体态了。她的眼睛里透着天生的聪明。她是一个典型的美国中产阶级少女——她们家已是移民的第三代了。
developmental: concerned with the development of someone or something developing: growing and becoming more mature, advanced, or elaborate growing: becoming greater over a period of time; increasing