And formative means important for the development of something.

formative是指在某物发展过程中非常重要的事。

These online interactive maps illustrate the formative power of snailmail.

这些交互式地图展示了蜗牛邮件的重要地位。

Sorry, ask that in a proper formative question.

不好意思，用适当的形式问句来问。

Tyson remembers that day in 1975 as one of the most formative in his life.

泰森记，1975年的那天是他一生中最重要的一天之一。

This makes it difficult to reconstruct the 4.5bn-year-old planet's formative years.

这使很难重建这颗有45亿年历史的星的形成期。

She learnt from her tutors coming from Britain or France as the formative education.

来自英国和法国的家庭教师对她进了启蒙。

This ordeal affects us all, but it comes at a particularly formative moment in your lives.

这场磨难影响到了我们所有人，但它却偏偏在你们生命中特别重要的时刻来临。

During those formative years in Reston, I was blessed to have great coaches as well.

在莱斯顿成长的那些年里，我也很幸运地拥有伟大的教练。

Here is a man raised by an overbearing woman who completely dominated every aspect of his formative years.

这是一个被专横霸道的女人养大，从性格形成时期就各方面被彻底压制的男人。

They acquire the spoken form of their mother tongue during the formative period of language acquisition.

在语言习的形成阶段，他们会自然习语的口语。

Much of Robin's formative years were spent alone in the huge mansion that was his home.

在罗宾性格成型阶段的大部分时间里，他都是独自待在自己家的豪宅。

" He lived here during the formative years of the Boy Scouts, and he is buried here."

“在童子军的创立阶段他就生活在这里，后来被埋葬在这里。”

During their formative years they were exposed to the internet—an organ with an inbuilt resistance to government meddling.

当他们的思想处于成形阶段时，互联网的影响无处不在。要知道，互联网是一种对政府干预具有内在抗拒机制的系统。

Of course, as members of the class of 2027, your most formative years coincided with moments of monumental consequence.

作为2027届的学生，你们形成价值观的年岁正好有很多大事发生。

The Cambrian is famous for being a pretty  formative period in the history of life on Earth.

寒武纪因地球生命史上的一个相当重要的形成时期而闻名。

I had experience doing that with two intellectually formative people in my life.

在我的生活中，我有过和两个智力塑造者一起做这件事的经验。

Especially, young people are looking at their phones a lot during their body's formative years.

尤其是，年轻人在身体形成时期经常看手机。

So Julian Baggini believes the way other people see us is formative in creating our sense of identity—or who we are.

所以朱利安·巴吉尼认为别人看待我们的方式，也是我们形成自身认同感的组成部分，即我们如何看自己。

This is especially true when you receive that level of love and encouragement during your formative years.

当你在成长的岁月里到那种程度的爱和鼓励时，尤其如此。

A young man in his formative years with a violent streak pulled into the allure of gang involvement.

一个处于成长期的年轻人，有着暴力倾向，被卷入了帮派的诱惑之中。