Look, it's pro forma. It's window dressing.

这是惯例 走个过场。

The bill becomes law once the House of Lords gives its pro forma consent.

该法案一旦由上议院按惯例批准将变成法律。

Look, usually these inspections are pro forma.

听着 通常这些检查也就是走个形式。

These are pro forma questions I'm asking everyone.

我问每个人的都一样 走个形式而已。

It's pro forma. It's one sentence on one piece of paper.

债务上限的投票 只是走个过场而已。

After a time, though, I decided to try him on an old number I'd been given, mostly as a pro forma exercise, to be able to say that I'd attempted but failed to interview him.

不过，过了一段时间，我决定用我拿的一个旧号码试试，主要是作为一种形式的练习，以便能够说我曾试图采访他，但没有成功。

Just over 100 of them completed a survey once every two weeks for twelve months - ticking off species they had seen from a pro forma list - and adding the names of any rarer ones.

他们中只有100多人完成了调查，在一年中每两周做一次。在列表上标出他们看到的物种，并加上稀有物种的名字。

I like to hear people's criticism if it's not snarky, and if it's not based on some kind of feeling that's pro forma: " Frank Gehry did the building. Therefore, it's got to be wasteful. Therefore, it's got to be expensive."

我喜欢听到人们的批评，如果不是尖酸刻薄，如果不是基于某种形式上的感觉：“弗兰克·盖里设计了这栋楼。因此，它就一定是浪费的。因此，它就一定是昂贵的。”