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

• 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。
• 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。
• A national park in California famous for its waterfalls and rock formations.
  加利福尼亚州的一个国家公园，以瀑布和岩石群闻名。
• It is blessed with strange rock formations, verdant trees, clear streams lakes and mighty peaks.
  这是得天独厚的奇怪岩层，到处树木葱茏，明确溪流湖泊和强大的高峰。
• It takes centuries for water dripping through the rock to make these beautiful formations.
  从岩石上滴下的水用了数个世纪的时间造就了这奇妙的结构。
• Both clay and sandstone are unstable rock formations.
  黏土和砂岩都是不牢固的岩石构造。
• The weather was going to change, and you could see the cloud formations move.
  要变天了，你可以看到云的结构发生变化。
• 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。
• New word formations have not regularity.
  新词的构成没有规律。
• Most diamonds are mined from rock formations inside the earth.
  〔大多数钻石都是从地下的岩层里开采出来的。