formations

英 [fɔːˈmeɪʃənz]

美 [fɔrˈmeɪʃənz]

n.  组成; 形成; 组成物; 形成物; 编队; 队形
formation的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-UNCOUNT 创建;设立;创造
  Theformationofsomething is the starting or creation of it.
  1. ...the formation of a new government.
     新政府的组建
• N-UNCOUNT 形成;养成;建立
  Theformationofan idea, habit, relationship, or character is the process of developing and establishing it.
  1. My profession had an important influence in the formation of my character and temperament.
     我的职业对我性格和脾气的形成有重要的影响。
• N-COUNT 编队;列队
  If people or things areinformation, they are arranged in a particular pattern as they move.
  1. He was flying in formation with seven other jets...
     他和其他7架喷气机一起列队飞行。
  2. They saw a squadron of fifteen motorcycle policemen driving in V-formation...
     他们看见 15 名警察骑着摩托车排成 V 字形前行。
  3. The dancers step into a formation which represents the human being.
     舞蹈演员们排成一个人形队列。
• N-COUNT 形成物;组成物;(岩或云)层
  A rock or cloudformationis rock or cloud of a particular shape or structure.
  1. ...a vast rock formation shaped like a pillar...
     柱状的巨大岩层
  2. Enormous cloud formations formed a purple mass.
     巨大的云层形成紫色云团。

双语例句

• It is a landscape of the imagination but imagination based on years of study of rock formations.
  这片风景出自想像，而想像又源于多年对岩石构成的研究。
• Enormous cloud formations formed a purple mass.
  巨大的云层形成紫色云团。
• Solid wastes may be deposited in or adjacent geologic formations.
  固体废物可以被存放在地质形成物中或其附近。
• This movement has created unusual and beautiful rock formations.
  这些地底运动创造出了怪异却美观的岩石结构。
• The stratigraphic column in this district includes all the Paleozoic formations.
  这个地区的地层柱包括全部古生代岩系。
• Up in the mountains are clear lakes, quick-moving small rivers, and huge formations of rock.
  山上是清澈的湖泊，快速流动的小溪和巨大的岩石构造。
• Scientists need to figure out which kinds of rock and soil formations are best at holding carbon dioxide.
  科学家们需要在指出哪一种岩石和土壤的构成是最适合保存二氧化碳。
• A stratigraphic unit, especially a unit consisting of two or more formations deposited during a single geologic era.
  地层学单位地层学中的一个单位，尤指包括在同一地质时期沉积的两个或两个以上地层的单位。
• Capitalist social formations reflect the interaction, or articulation, of different modes of production.
  资本主义社会结构反映了不同形式的生产方式之间的互动，或者说相互联系。
• New word formations have not regularity.
  新词的构成没有规律。