考研Next time you state your position, formulate an argument for what you claim and honestly ask yourself whether your argument is any good.

下次当你陈述你的立场时，为你的主张制定一个论点，并诚实地问自己你的论点是否正确。

2020年考研真题（英语一）翻译 Section Ⅲ

六级What was chaos theory supposed to do when it was first formulated?

混沌理论最初形成时应该做什么？

2013年6月听力原文

六级They formulated a dress code with distinctive American features.

他们制定了具有鲜明美国特色的着装规范。

2017年6月阅读原文

考研The role of natural selection in evolution was formulated only a little more than a hundred years ago, and the selective role of the environment in shaping and maintaining the behavior of the individual is only beginning to be recognized and studied.

自然选择在进化中的作用是在一百多年前才形成的，而环境在塑造和维持个体行为中的选择性作用才刚刚开始被认识和研究。

2002年全国攻读硕士学位研究生入学考试英语试题

考研He reasoned that because it is easier to formulate certain concepts and not others in a given language, the speakers of that language think along one track and not along another.

他认为，由于在特定语言中更容易形成某些概念，而不是其他概念，因此该语言的使用者会沿着一条轨道思考，而不是沿着另一条轨道。

2004年全国攻读硕士学位研究生入学考试英语试题

考研A century ago, Freud formulated his revolutionary theory that dreams were the disguised shadows of our unconscious desires and fears; by the late 1970s, neurologists had switched to thinking of them as just “mental noise”—the random byproducts of the neural-repair work that goes on during sleep.

一个世纪前，弗洛伊德提出了他的革命性理论，即梦是我们无意识欲望和恐惧的伪装阴影；到了20世纪70年代末，神经学家已经转而将其视为“精神噪音”——睡眠中神经修复工作的随机副产品。

2005年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语试题