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A sharpened pencil has a point, as does the end of an umbrella. The noun point has a dizzying number of different definitions, including a punctuation mark, a unit of scoring in a game, a moment in time, and the essential meaning or purpose of something. Point is a verb too, meaning to gesture with your finger, to emphasize, or to make something into the shape of a point. The original meaning of point was "a dot," from the Latin pungere, "prick or pierce". |
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1 [N-COUNT 可数名词]观点；看法；论点 You use point to refer to something that someone has said or written. We disagree with every point Mr Blunkett makes... 布伦基特先生提出的观点我们一个都不同意。 Dave Hill's article makes the right point about the Taylor Report... 戴夫·希尔的文章对《泰勒报告》的看法是正确的。 The following tale will clearly illustrate this point. 接下来的故事将清楚地阐明这一点。
2 [N-SING 单数名词]论据；道理 If you say that someone has a point, or if you take their point, you mean that you accept that what they have said is important and should be considered. 'If he'd already killed once, surely he'd have killed Sarah?' She had a point there... “如果他杀过一次人，那他一定已经杀了萨拉吧？”她说得有道理。 Oh I take your point, John, about that. 噢，约翰，关于那一点，我觉得你说得对。
3 [N-SING 单数名词]要点；核心问题 The point of what you are saying or discussing is the most important part that provides a reason or explanation for the rest. 4 [N-SING 单数名词]意义；目的；作用 If you ask what the point of something is, or say that there is no point in it, you are indicating that a particular action has no purpose or would not be useful. 5 [N-COUNT 可数名词]细节；方面；特性 A point is a detail, aspect, or quality of something or someone. Many of the points in the report are correct... 报告中的很多细节是正确的。 The most interesting point about the village was its religion... 这个村庄最有意思的地方就是它的宗教。 Science was never my strong point at school. 我上学时理科从来都不是我的强项。
6 [N-COUNT 可数名词]地点；地方；（表示位置的）点，处 A point is a particular place or position where something happens. As a mark of respect the emperor met him at a point several weeks' march from the capital... 出于尊重，皇帝在离首都还有几个星期路程的地方迎接了他。 The pain originated from a point in his right thigh. 疼痛是从他右大腿的某处开始的。
7 [N-SING 单数名词]（某一）时刻，阶段 You use point to refer to a particular time, or to a particular stage in the development of something. We're all going to die at some point... 我们都将在某个时间死去。 At one point, around 70,000 members had failed to pay... 一度曾有约7万名成员没有支付费用。 At this point Diana arrived... 这时候，戴安娜到了。 It got to the point where he had to leave. 到了他不得不走的地步。
8 [N-COUNT 可数名词]尖；尖端；尖头 The point of something such as a pin, needle, or knife is the thin, sharp end of it. 9 （口语中表示）小数点 In spoken English, you use point to refer to the dot or mark in a decimal number that separates the whole numbers from the fractions. 10 [N-COUNT 可数名词]（用作某些体育运动等计分单位的）点，分 In some sports, competitions, and games, a point is one of the single marks that are added together to give the total score. They lost the 1977 World Cup final to Australia by a single point... 他们在1977年的世界杯决赛中仅以一分之差输给了澳大利亚队。 Chamberlain scored 50 or more points four times in the season. 张伯伦在赛季中有4次得分不低于50。
11 [N-COUNT 可数名词]罗经（方位）点 The points of the compass are directions such as North, South, East, and West. 12 [N-PLURAL 复数名词]（铁轨的）轨尖，道岔 On a railway track, the points are the levers and rails at a place where two tracks join or separate. The points enable a train to move from one track to another. in AM, use 美国英语用 switches 13 [N-COUNT 可数名词]插座 A point is an electric socket. 14 [VERB 动词]（用手指）指 If you point at a person or thing, you hold out your finger towards them in order to make someone notice them. I pointed at the boy sitting nearest me... 我指了指坐得离我最近的男孩。 He pointed at me with the stem of his pipe... 他用烟斗柄指着我。 He pointed to a chair, signalling for her to sit. 他指向一把椅子，示意她坐下。
15 [VERB 动词]把…对准；使朝向 If you point something at someone, you aim the tip or end of it towards them. 16 [VERB 动词]指向；朝向 If something points to a place or points in a particular direction, it shows where that place is or it faces in that direction. An arrow pointed to the toilets... 箭头指向卫生间。 You can go anywhere and still the compass points north or south... 无论走到哪里，罗盘仍然指向北或南。 He controlled the car until it was pointing forwards again. 他稳住车子，直到它又朝前开去。
17 [VERB 动词]显示；表明 If something points to a particular situation, it suggests that the situation exists or is likely to occur. Earlier reports pointed to pupils working harder, more continuously, and with enthusiasm... 早些时候的报告显示学生学习更为刻苦、持久，并且怀有学习热情。 Private polls and embassy reports pointed to a no vote. 私人民意调查和使馆报告表明投票结果将会是否决。
18 [VERB 动词]着重指出；强调；以…为证明 If you point to something that has happened or that is happening, you are using it as proof that a particular situation exists. George Fodor points to other weaknesses in the way the campaign has progressed... 乔治·福多尔以运动开展过程中的其他不足为证。 Gooch last night pointed to their bowling as the key to World Cup success. 古奇昨晚指出，他们的投球是在世界杯上取得成功的关键。
19 [VERB 动词]（用水泥等）勾嵌（砖或石墙的砌缝） When builders point a wall, they put a substance such as cement into the gaps between the bricks or stones in order to make the wall stronger and seal it. 20 See also:pointed ； breaking point ； focal point ； point of sale ； point of view ； power point ； sticking point ； vantage point ； 21 [PHRASE 短语]离题的；不相关的 If you say that something is beside the point, you mean that it is not relevant to the subject that you are discussing. 22 [PHRASE 短语]谈到正题；讲到关键问题 When someone comes to the point or gets to the point, they start talking about the thing that is most important to them. 23 [PHRASE 短语]证明自己的论点 If you make your point or prove your point, you prove that something is true, either by arguing about it or by your actions or behaviour. I think you've made your point, dear... 亲爱的，我想你已证明你的观点了。 Dr David McCleland, of Boston University, studied one-hundred people, aged eighteen to sixty, to prove the point... 为证明这一点，波士顿大学的戴维·麦克莱兰博士对100名年龄在18至60岁之间的人进行了研究。 The tie-break proved the point. 决胜局证明了这一点。
24 [PHRASE 短语]特意；故意 If you make a point of doing something, you do it in a very deliberate or obvious way. 25 [PHRASE 短语]正要…之际；就要…之时 If you are on the point of doing something, you are about to do it. 26 [PHRASE 短语]切题的；中肯的 Something that is to the point is relevant to the subject that you are discussing, or expressed neatly without wasting words or time. 27 [PHRASE 短语]有一点；在一定程度上 If you say that something is true up to a point, you mean that it is partly but not completely true. 28 a case in point→see: case ； in point of fact →see: fact ； to point the finger at someone →see: finger ； a sore point →see: sore ； |