- 1具塑造作用的；成長關鍵期的（formative years）
If years, a teacher, a book, a place, or an experience is formative, it has an important influence on the way someone or something develops. Your formative years are the ones that leave a deep mark — often childhood and the years around it, though a later chapter of life can be formative too. A formative experience is one that changes how you think or feel from then on. It is a thoughtful, slightly careful word; people use it in school writing and in talk about growing up. Though actually, it does not mean “forming right now” in the everyday sense of making something with your hands. It means “important in the forming of a person or thing.” It also does not mean formal (official, polite).
From the word’s history
From Middle English formatyve, from Old French formatif, from Medieval Latin formātīvus, from Latin fōrmātus, past participle of fōrmō 'to form'.
源自中古拉丁文 formātīvus，來自拉丁文 fōrmō「塑形」。
組成From Latin formātus (“shaped”) + -īvus (“doing” or “related to doing”). By the look of the English word: form + -ative.
原始詞典資料8 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
formativeadj詞源 1/ˈfɔːmətɪv/
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Capable of forming something.
- [I]ts thought, that, in the Seed are alvvaies potentially ſeuerall indiuiduating Qualities deriu'd from diuers of the neere Anceſtors, vvhich by the formatiue povver of the Parents may be expreſt in the Children, vvith reſpectiue habitude to either Sex; […]
- Hybrids, […] have their reproductive organs functionally impotent, as may be clearly seen in the state of the male element in both plants and animals; though the formative organs themselves are perfect in structure, as far as the microscope reveals.
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biologynatural-sciencesCapable of forming something.
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human-scienceslinguistic-morphologylinguisticsCapable of forming something.
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Of or pertaining to the formation and subsequent growth of something.
- My formative years were spent in an inner city.
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educationOf a form of assessment: used to guide learning rather than to quantify educational outcomes.
formativenoun詞源 2/ˈfɔːmətɪv/
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A thing which causes formation to occur.
- [T]his museum of the state of flux [Newmarket, Suffolk] has a climate unrivalled for the production of the British temperament. Not without a due proportion of that essential formative of character, east wind, it has at once the hottest sun, the coldest blizzards, the wettest rain, of any place of its size in 'the three kingdoms.'
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human-scienceslinguistic-morphologylinguisticsA language unit, typically a morph, that has a morphological function (that is, forming a word from a root or another word).
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human-scienceslinguistic-morphologylinguisticsSynonym of derivative (“a word that derives from another one”).
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