There are photographs from the time, showing a group of rather formally dressed young men and women earnest with the gravity of things to come.

现在还留有一些当时的照片，照片中有一群衣着正式的年轻男女，表情凝重商讨国家大事。

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At the windows were curtains of snowy white jaconet muslin: they were tolerably full, and hung decisively, perhaps rather formally, in sharp, parallel plaits to the floor - just to the floor.

窗帘是一块雪白色薄纱：这块薄纱饱满工整的挂着，也许为了显得正统，窗帘的边缘刚刚到触及地面——与地板轻柔的交界。

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It's often better to generate documentation after the fact if it helps move your agenda forward, rather than fighting a battle to formally change the process.

通常最好是在它帮助您推进日程之后，生成文档，而不需要大战一场来正式地更改流程。

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Any dissatisfied clients generally have simply changed consultants rather than formally complained through litigation.

FORBES: Investment Management Consultants: What's Behind the Veil? (April 1, 1996 )

In the face of strong opposition to such an action on the part of leading legislators, it appears that the Administration has decided to do it piecemeal and through budgetary legerdemain, rather than formally and overtly.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

The brief campaign was pitched to the American public in terms of freedom and national honor (the U.S.S. Maine had blown up mysteriously in Havana Harbor), rather than of sugar and naval bases, and resulted in a formally independent Cuba.

NEWYORKER: The Water Cure