1.A criminal delinquent in his youth, Billy spent most of his formative years in and out of foster homes.
比利年少时有过一次流氓犯罪记录，导致在他大部分的成长的岁月都辗转于各个不同的收容家庭。
2.Many Indonesians share a deep pride about a man who spent part of his formative years in the country and went on to become US president.
很多印尼人都对曾在印尼度过部分童年时光、后来成为美国总统的奥巴马感到非常骄傲。
3.Crick's correspondence during the formative years of molecular biology was long thought to have been destroyed.
克里克认为他在分子生物学界崭露头角的头几年建立的通信联系被毁了。
4.From a very young age and through his formative years, Obama learned to see America as a force for global domination and destruction.
在形成世界观的幼年时期，奥巴马学会了将美国看作一个具有全球支配力和破坏的大国。
5.Maybe I was as nerdy and dorky as my older sister says, because sex was the furthest thing from my mind during those formative years.
也许我正如我的大姐所说的那样是个书呆子，因为在我的整个青葱岁月中我几乎没想过做爱做的事。
6.In Earth's formative years, it was hit by thousands of comets like this.
在地球的最初岁月中，它曾被成千上万个这样的彗星撞击。
7.Even into the mid nineteentwenties, in the formative years of quantum theory, fields and particles were envisioned as separate entities.
即使到了二十世纪二十年代中期，在量子理论形式的那些岁月里，场和粒子还是被当成分立的实体。
8.Apparently , during our formative years , we are not always getting the right kind of encouragement.
很明显，在性格形成时期，我们并没有一直获得适当的鼓励。
9.His formative years were the long bleak decades of Poland's communist era, first in Warsaw and then in provincial Gdansk.
这种性格成型的日子，要追溯到波兰萧瑟黯淡、长达数十年的共产主义时代，先是在华沙，继而在格但斯克省。
10.Myths are accounts of important events that are supposed to have occurred some time during a culture's formative years.
神话是讲述据说是某一文化在形成期间所发生的重要事件。