formative years

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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。
Jaw-dropping events were apparently commonplace in my mother's formative years -- no surprise, since she was such an outsize character herself.
在我母亲性格形成期，令人惊讶的事总是司空见惯，不用惊讶，因为他就是这样一个外向的人。
The WHO Child Growth Standards provide new means to support every child to get the best chance to develop in the most important formative years,” said Dr LEE Jong-wook, Director-General of WHO.
“世卫组织儿童生长标准提供新的手段支持每一个儿童在最重要的形成性格时期获得最佳发育机会，”世卫组织总干事李钟郁博士说。

Margaret Brown was a social and political activist in the formative years of the modern American West.
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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This means millions of kids don't have a mom during those important, formative years.
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