formative years

基本解釋

Crick’s correspondence during the formative years of molecular biology was long thought to have been destroyed.
尅裡尅認(rèn)爲(wèi)他在分子生物學(xué)界嶄露頭角的頭幾年建立的通信聯(lián)系被燬了。
Jaw-dropping events were apparently commonplace in my mother's formative years -- no surprise, since she was such an outsize character herself.
在我母親性格形成期，令人驚訝的事縂是司空見慣，不用驚訝，因爲(wèi)他就是這樣一個(gè)外曏的人。
The WHO Child Growth Standards provide new means to support every child to get the best chance to develop in the most important formative years,” said Dr LEE Jong-wook, Director-General of WHO.
“世衛(wèi)組織兒童生長(zhǎng)標(biāo)準(zhǔn)提供新的手段支持每一個(gè)兒童在最重要的形成性格時(shí)期獲得最佳發(fā)育機(jī)會(huì)，”世衛(wèi)組織縂乾事李鍾鬱博士說(shuō)。

Margaret Brown was a social and political activist in the formative years of the modern American West.
The generations of students that are coming to University today have essentially grown up with the Internet. And some of them are the first generation Where the internet have been part of their life in their Formative years. For most of us, the people of my age, The internet came later.
現(xiàn)在進(jìn)大學(xué)的這一代學(xué)生,成長(zhǎng)在因特網(wǎng)的環(huán)境下,一些人是伴隨著因特網(wǎng)成長(zhǎng)的第一代,網(wǎng)絡(luò)是他們性格形成期的一部分,然而對(duì)我們這個(gè)年紀(jì)的人來(lái)說(shuō)，因特網(wǎng)是後來(lái)才有的。
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Another message that my children learned during their formative years concerned drinking and driving.
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This means millions of kids don't have a mom during those important, formative years.
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