Formal variable

formal ['fɔ:məl]

adj. （学校教育或培训）正规的;方式上的;礼仪上的; n. <美>须穿礼服的社交集会;<口>夜礼服;

variable ['vɛrɪəbl]

adj. 变化的，可变的;[数]变量的;[生]变异的; n. 可变因素，变量;易变的东西;

vari=vary变化+able形容词后缀→易变的

Sounds like what?

声音像什么

There is no sense in what he says.

他说的话没有道理。

We can perhaps forgive those who said the moons of Jupiter were produced by Galileo's spyglass if we recall that in his day, as for centuries before, curved glass was the popular contrivance for producing not truth but illusion, untruth;

如果我们回想一下伽利略之前几个世纪期间，曲面镜一直是一种用于产生幻影而不是产生真象的把戏装置，那么我们就会原谅那些当时把伽利略观察到的木星卫生说成是伽利略用他的小望远镜变出来的人们，