She spent her formative years at a famous English girls' boarding school.

她是在英国一间著名的女子寄宿学校长大的。

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Someone who spent their formative years in Massachusetts, say, may always hanker for Samuel Adams, a local beer.

一些人的性格形成时期是在马省度过的，他们就总是会选择塞缪尔·亚当斯牌的麻省当地啤酒。

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Other research has suggested, however, that uncommon names can have a direct impact on kids, embarrassing them in their formative years, the USA Today story says.

不过，《今日美国》的报道说，其他一些研究显示，特立独行的名字会给孩子带来直接影响，让他们在成长过程中因为自己的名字而感到尴尬。

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Margaret Brown was a social and political activist in the formative years of the modern American West.

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The generations of students that are coming to University today have essentially grown up with the Internet. And some of them are the first generation Where the internet have been part of their life in their Formative years. For most of us, the people of my age, The internet came later.

现在进大学的这一代学生,成长在因特网的环境下,一些人是伴随着因特网成长的第一代,网络是他们性格形成期的一部分,然而对我们这个年纪的人来说，因特网是后来才有的。

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Another message that my children learned during their formative years concerned drinking and driving.

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Several other countries have in the past fielded outstanding players whose formative years were spent elsewhere.

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This means millions of kids don't have a mom during those important, formative years.

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