考研英语高频词解析：formal，背单词千万不要只记中文意思，一定要结合真题例句去理解它的语境。记住它的搭配比干巴巴地背释义有用得多。以下是详细介绍。

考研英语高频词汇：formal

单词：formal

音标：/ˈfɔːml/

释义：a.正式的；形式的

考频：★★★★★

记法：

词根拆解记忆：form（形式、制式）+ -al（形容词后缀，表“具有…属性的”）→ 符合既定制式要求的 → 正式的；仅涉及外在形式的 → 形式的。也可通过反义关联记忆：否定前缀in-加formal构成informal（非正式的），成对记忆可大幅提升背诵效率。

派生词：

formally (副词，意为“正式地；形式上地”)

formalism (名词，意为“形式主义；形式体系”)

formalize (动词，意为“使正式生效；使规范化，使形式化”)

formalization (名词，意为“正式化；规范化，定型”)

搭配：

formal education 正规教育；

formal occasion 正式场合；

formal agreement 正式协议；

formal system 正式体系；形式系统；

formal requirement 正式要求；

考研真题例句：

Rather than pulling students back, a gap year pushes them ahead by preparing them for independence, new responsibilities and environmental changes—all things that first-year students often struggle with the most when they start their formal college life.

间隔年不会拖学生的后腿，反而能让他们提前为独立、新的责任和环境变化做好准备，从而领先一步——这些恰恰是大一新生正式开始大学生活时最常犯难的事。

Although the Supreme Court of the United States had prohibited intentional racial discrimination in jury selection as early as the 1880s, the practice of selecting so-called elite or blue-ribbon juries provided a convenient way around this and other anti-discrimination formal requirements.

尽管美国最高法院早在19世纪80年代就禁止了陪审团遴选过程中的故意种族歧视行为，但遴选所谓“精英”或“蓝带”陪审团的做法却提供了一个便利的途径，得以绕开这一规定以及其他反歧视的正式要求。

We are even farther removed from the unfocused newspaper reviews published in England between the turn of the 20th century and the eve of World War II, at a time when newsprint was dirt-cheap and stylish arts criticism was considered an ornament to the publications in which it appeared, not a formal academic publication.

我们距离20世纪初到二战前夕英国报刊上发表的无特定主题的评论就更加遥远了，那时新闻用纸极其便宜，颇具风格的艺术评论被视作刊登它的出版物的点缀，而非一份正式的学术刊物。

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