We will reinforce old alliances and form new ones.

我们会加固与旧盟友的关系，建立新的联盟。

Though hurricanes can form at any time.

尽管飓风在任何时候都可以形成。

Well, his next step, Steve, is to try to form a government.

史蒂夫，他下一步是要组建政府。

It's a form of innate or unlearned optimism.

这是一内在，需学习的乐观主义精神。

The incessant anxiety and strain of some is a well-nigh incurable form of disease.

有些人心那挥之不去的焦虑和紧张几乎已经变成了一可救的疾病。

That's right. In English vocabulary, we often put two or more nouns together to form a new noun, with a meaning that combines the meanings of the two original nouns. We call these words compound nouns.

是的。在英语词汇，我们经常将两个或多个名词放在一起以形成一个新名词，其含义是将两个始名词的含义结合在一起。我们称这些词为复合名词。

The cinema did not emerge as a form of mass consumption until its technology evolved from the initial " peepshow" format to the point where images were projected on a screen in a darkened theater.

随着西洋镜到暗幕图像的不断发展，大量电影院应运。

Traditions will be formed and the mid-autumn festival would come to be known as a symbol of family reunion where loved ones gather together to share moon cakes, hang up lanterns and admire the full moon in the night sky.

传统于是便形成了，秋节成为了举家团圆的代名词，彼此关爱的亲人聚在一起分享月饼，悬挂灯笼，欣赏夜空的满月。

This alloy is formed by the fusion of two types of metal.

这合金是用两金属熔合成的。

Whorf came to believe in a sort of linguistic determinism which, in its strongest form, states that language imprisons the mind, and that the grammatical patterns in a language can produce far-reaching consequences for the culture of a society.

沃夫进相信某类似语言决定论的观点，其极端说法是：语言禁锢思维，语言的语法结构能对一个社会的文化产深远的影响。

This, the very person whose photo on the application form months earlier had leapt out with promises of instant affinities.

正是他，几个月前相片还贴在申请表上的人，活脱脱地出现了，且让人一见倾心。

That's elevating puns to an art form yo.

我真是把说双关语提升到了艺术的境地。

Today's lecture forms part of the Hospitality and Tourism module.

今天的讲座属于接待观光课程的一部分。

Drawing is a form of meditation for me.

绘画对我言是一沉思。

You will form bonds of friendship that will blossom over many decades.

你会结下将绽放几十年的友情。

Some used a form of picture writing called hieroglyphics.

一些族群使用图形进行书写被称作象形文字。

A procession was immediately formed by those engaged in the search.

参与搜寻的人们立刻排成一队。

The workplace is an especially difficult place for anyone to tell the truth, because no matter how flat we want our organizations to be, all organizations have some form of hierarchy.

在工作环境，说真话尤其得难，因为论我们多希望将组织架构扁平化，所有的组织都会有某层级。

1 The college campus, long a place of scholarship and frontiers of new technology, is being trans formed into a new age of electronics by a fleet of laptops, smartphones and connectivity 24 hours a day.

1大学校园长久以来都是学术之地，也是新技术的前沿。现在随着手提电脑和智能手机的大量出现，加上每天 24 小时不间断的网络连接，大学校园正在转进入电子设备的新时代。

Lightning strikes can convert some nitrogen into a bioavailable form.

雷电能将部分氮气转化成一可用的物形式。