Formation

(noun.) the act of fabricating something in a particular shape.

(noun.) creation by mental activity; 'the formation of sentences'; 'the formation of memories'.

(noun.) a particular spatial arrangement.

(noun.) an arrangement of people or things acting as a unit; 'a defensive formation'; 'a formation of planes'.

(noun.) natural process that causes something to form; 'the formation of gas in the intestine'; 'the formation of crystals'; 'the formation of pseudopods'.

手打:苏珊

• The results of th is would be the formation of a new species. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• Several cases are on record of the same species presenting varieties in the upper and lower parts of the same formation. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• Plasticity or the power to learn from experience means the formation of habits. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• As they came up, still deep in the shadow of the pines, after dropping down from the high meadow into the wooden valley and climbing up it on a trail that paralleled the stream and then left it to gain, steeply, the top of a rim-rock formation, a man with a carbine stepped out from behind a tree. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• It was evident that subsequen tly to the formation of the basalt that portion of the coast containing the white stratum had been elevated. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• The amount of organic change, as Pictet has remarked, is not the same in each successive so-called formation. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• Nor will the closest inspection of a formation give us any idea of the length of time which its deposition may have consumed. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• The latter attempted to rush in and break up the formation, but it was like stopping a buzz saw with the bare hand. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• They are generally sunk in valley plains and districts where the formation of the ground is such that that below the surface is bent into basin-shaped curves. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Moreover, between each successive formation we have, in the opinion of most geologists, blank periods of enormous length. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• Moreover, the formation is not only a formation of native activities, but it takes place through them. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Next follow those that are constructed for twilight; and, last of all, those destined for total darkness, and whose formation is quite peculiar. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• The formation of mind is wholly a matter of the presentation of the proper educational materials. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• There was a formation of surface going on around her on an amazing scale, and it had not a flaw of courage or honest free speech in it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• But intellectual growth means constant expansion of horizons and consequent formation of new purposes and new responses. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Some of these formations, which are represented in England by thin beds, are thousands of feet in thickness on the Continent. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• Lyell has made similar observations on some of the later tertiary formations. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• Yet if we compare any but the most closely related formations, all the species will be found to have undergone some change. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• In reference to the last (volcanic ash combined with lime and r ubble to form a cement) Vitruvius writes in a way that indicates a discriminating knowledge of geological formations. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• Hence, it is probable that in some parts of the world whole formations have been completely denuded, with not a wreck left behind. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• Evidently he was a chieftain, for in certain marching formations among the green men a chieftain brings up the extreme rear of the column. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
• The three passed and then came nine more, flying much higher in the minute, pointed formations of threes, threes and threes. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• The horizontal lines may represent successive geological formations, and all the forms beneath the uppermost line may be considered as extinct. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• It would seem that each separate formation, like the whole pile of formations in any country, has generally been intermittent in its accumulation. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• None of these massed infantry formations was flexible enough to stand a flank or rear attack. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

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