首页英语词典pointpoint的意思

point

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近义词indicate show direct aim

n. 要点；得分；标点；[机] 尖端
vt. 指向；弄尖；加标点于
vi. 表明；指向
n. (Point)人名；(法)普安

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词态变化

复数: points;第三人称单数: points;过去式: pointed;过去分词: pointed;现在分词: pointing;

中文词源

point 点，论点，观点，目标，指向，用灰泥抹砖缝

来自古法语point,点，刺点，斑点，勾缝，来自拉丁语punctum,刺点，来自拉丁语pungere,刺，-ct,过去分词格，来自PIE*peug,刺，词源同pugnacious,puncture.并引申诸相关词义。

英英释意

1. a geometric element that has position but no extension;: "a point is defined by its coordinates"

2. the precise location of something; a spatially limited location;: "she walked to a point where she could survey the whole street"

3. a brief version of the essential meaning of something;: "get to the point"; "he missed the point of the joke"; "life has lost its point"

4. a specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process;: "a remarkable degree of frankness"; "at what stage are the social sciences?"

5. an isolated fact that is considered separately from the whole;: "several of the details are similar"; "a point of information"

6. an instant of time;: "at that point I had to leave"

7. the object of an activity;: "what is the point of discussing it?"

8. a V shape;: "the cannibal's teeth were filed to sharp points"

9. a very small circular shape;: "a row of points"; "draw lines between the dots"

10. the unit of counting in scoring a game or contest;: "he scored 20 points in the first half"; "a touchdown counts 6 points"

11. a promontory extending out into a large body of water;: "they sailed south around the point"

12. a distinct part that can be specified separately in a group of things that could be enumerated on a list;: "he noticed an item in the New York Times"; "she had several items on her shopping list"; "the main point on the agenda was taken up first"

13. a style in speech or writing that arrests attention and has a penetrating or convincing quality or effect

14. an outstanding characteristic;: "his acting was one of the high points of the movie"

15. sharp end;: "he stuck the point of the knife into a tree"; "he broke the point of his pencil"

16. any of 32 horizontal directions indicated on the card of a compass;: "he checked the point on his compass"

17. a linear unit used to measure the size of type; approximately 1/72 inch

18. a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations;: "in England they call a period a stop"

19. a V-shaped mark at one end of an arrow pointer;: "the point of the arrow was due north"

20. the property of a shape that tapers to a sharp point

21. a distinguishing or individuating characteristic;: "he knows my bad points as well as my good points"

22. the gun muzzle's direction;: "he held me up at the point of a gun"

23. a wall socket

24. a contact in the distributor; as the rotor turns its projecting arm contacts distributor points and current flows to the spark plugs

英文词源

point: point: [13] ‘Sharp end’ is the etymological notion underlying point. For it comes ultimately from Latin pungere ‘prick, pierce’ (source also of English expunge, poignant and pungent). The neuter form of its past participle, punctum, was used as a noun, meaning ‘small hole made by pricking, dot, particle, etc’ (it is the source of English punctual, punctuation, etc), which passed into Old French as point.

Then in the post-classical period a further noun was created, from the feminine past participle puncta, meaning ‘sharp tip’, and this gave Old French pointe. The two have remained separate in French, but in English they have coalesced in point. The Spanish descendant of Latin punctum, punta, has given English punt ‘bet’.
=> compunction, expunge, poignant, punctual, punctuation, punt
point (n.): c. 1200, "minute amount, single item in a whole; sharp end of a sword, etc.," a merger of two words, both ultimately from Latin pungere "prick, pierce, puncture" (see pungent). The Latin neuter past participle punctum was used as a noun, meaning "small hole made by pricking," subsequently extended to anything that looked like one, hence, "dot, particle," etc. This yielded Old French point "dot; smallest amount," which was borrowed in Middle English by c. 1300.

Meanwhile the Latin fem. past participle of pungere was puncta, which was used in Medieval Latin to mean "sharp tip," and became Old French pointe "point of a weapon, vanguard of an army," which also passed into English, early 14c.

The senses have merged in English, but remain distinct in French. Extended senses are from the notion of "minute, single, or separate items in an extended whole." Meaning "small mark, dot" in English is mid-14c. Meaning "distinguishing feature" is recorded from late 15c. Meaning "a unit of score in a game" is first recorded 1746. As a typeface unit (in Britain and U.S., one twelfth of a pica), it went into use in U.S. 1883. As a measure of weight for precious stones (one one-hundredth of a carat) it is recorded from 1931.

The point "the matter being discussed" is attested from late 14c.; meaning "sense, purpose, advantage" (usually in the negative, as in what's the point?) is first recorded 1903. Point of honor (1610s) translates French point d'honneur. Point of no return (1941) is originally aviators' term for the point in a flight "before which any engine failure requires an immediate turn around and return to the point of departure, and beyond which such return is no longer practical."
point (v.): late 14c., "indicate with the finger;" c. 1400, "wound by stabbing; make pauses in reading a text; seal or fill openings or joints or between tiles," partly from Old French pointoier "to prick, stab, jab, mark," and also from point (n.).

Mid-15c. as "to stitch, mend." From late 15c. as "stitch, mend;" also "furnish (a garment) with tags or laces for fastening;" from late 15c. as "aim (something)." Related: Pointed; pointing. To point up "emphasize" is from 1934; to point out is from 1570s.

考试真题

What could have been considered the beginning of a descent is now a potential turning point—the turning point you are most equipped to take full advantage of.

Up until that point, Leah had followed traditional measures of success.

It is likely to be a critical turning point in one's life.

Instead of giving people practice, the gradual reduction likely gave them cravings ( ' , 瘾) and withdrawal symptoms before they even reached quit day, which could be why fewer people in that group actually made it to that point.

However, as Amy Edmondson of Harvard points out, organisations increasingly use team as a verb rather than a noun: they form teams for specific purposes and then quickly disband them.

Great leaders recognize the weak signals or slight signs that point to big changes to come.

But is there a point where it reaches capacity?The answer is no, because brains are more sophisticated than that.

At some point, almost all of us will experience a period of radical professional change.

The study included healthy, educated adults who took standard tests of memory, reasoning and perception at the outset and at some point over the next seven years.

The combined effects of those trends and the political tensions they generate point to the breakdown of governments and societies.

After a point, countries can become so dangerous that food relief workers are no longer safe and their programs are halted.

However, he points out that many countries have not done so.

We are at a point where in much of the developed world the vast majority of young people grew up playing video games, and an increasingly high percentage of adults play these video games too, Werbach says.

If you have a sign in your yard declaring what setup you use, that'd point them in the right direction, though at that point, we're talking about a highly targeted, semi-sophisticated attack, and not the sort of forced-entry attack that makes up the majority of burglaries.

He'll need to be jamming you at this point, as a broken window or opened door would normally release the alarm.

Excessively skinny models have been a point of controversy for decades, and two researchers say a model's body mass should be a workplace health and safety issue.

The point is not to excuse or forget the crime.

The author's mother taught him a valuable lesson by pointing out lots of flaws in his seemingly perfect essay.

Perhaps the point of writing the flawless essay was not to give up, but to never willingly finish.

Do your contacts share your point of view on most subjects? If yes, it's time to shake things up.

But functioning fireplaces remain to this day a powerful selling point in a house or apartment.

students can switch to different discussions at any point

Kodak's decision to file for bankruptcy（破产）protection is a sad, though not unexpected, turning point for a leading American corporation that pioneered consumer photography and dominated the film market for decades, but ultimately failed to adapt to the digital revolution

I say you only live once and we work hard and what's the point if you can't go on holiday.

But in recent years the capital's culinary (烹饪的) scene has developed to the point that it is now confident of its ability to please the tastes of any international visitor.

You are pointing out the errors he has committed.

For example, a Colombian who wants someone to approach him often signals with a hand movement in which all the fingers of one hand, cupped, point downward as they move rapidly back and forth.

Roberts cleverly pointed out that when you are first learning something, you are better off working alone than practicing with other people

Then you'll have to include that in your point.

Part of your point you knew before hand but part you discovered as you wrote

He can't find good examples to illustrate his point.

The writer's point of view often changes

No matter what the content of the message, its real point is, "I want you to know that I care about you.

Be business-like and stick to the point.

"We are at a point where in much of the developed world the vast majority of young people grew up playing video games, and an increasingly high percentage of adults play these video games too," Werbach says.

Again, the point is to listen hard while keeping the pen moving.

Although economic research and previous survey findings have shown that career interruptions related to motherhood may make it harder for women to advance in their careers and compete for top executive jobs, relatively few adults in the recent survey poin

Although Leslie perhaps paints a bit broadly in contending that most of us are unaware of how much we don't know, he's surely right to point out that the problem is growing: Google can give us the powerful illusion that all questions have definite answers

But is there a point where it reaches capacity?

But the point is the man was clocked-in at eight o'clock.

Crews had the fire under control in about 45 minutes and managed to contain the fire to its point of origin.

Graduation requirements specify the number of credits you must earn, the minimum grade point average you must achieve and the distribution of credits you must have from among different departments or fields of study.

If you have a sign in your yard declaring what setup you use, that'd point them in the right direction, though at that point, we're talking about a highly targeted, semi-sophisticated attack, and not the sort of forced-entry attack that makes up the major

Instead of giving people practice, the gradual reduction likely gave them cravings 瘾 and withdrawal symptoms before they even reached quit day, which could be why fewer people in that group actually made it to that point.

Instead, topping the list of reasons, about four-in-ten Americans point to a double standard for women seeking to climb to the highest levels of either politics or business, where they have to do more than their male counterparts to prove themselves.

My notes may or may not be useful, but the point is that by writing down what Mr.Brown says, I can follow his line of thinking more easily.

Perhaps the point of writing the flawless essay was not to give up, but to never willingly finish.

Rather, the point is to use the results of this study to open up meaningful dialogues on implicit gender bias, be it at a departmental level or an institutional level or even a discipline level.

That means that everyone will, at some point in their life, have to make a number of major reinvestments in their skills.

There is no point saying you run marathons, if you are going to be out of breath arriving at the interview on the second floor.

We’re obligated to deliver to that point on a daily basis.

These likely persistent forces, like the growth of shale ( ' , 页岩) oil, point to a low for long scenario.

The consumer was ultimately to be mentioned as well, especially by the likes of Dorothy Shaver, who could point to the sales figures at Lord & Taylor.

London was a frequent starting point for Grand Tourists, and Paris a compulsory destination; many traveled to the Netherlands, some to Switzerland and Germany, and a very few adventurers to Spain, Greece, or Turkey.

Agreement on an international carbon-price floor would be a good starting point in that process.

They point to the growing curiosity of TV viewers.

One recent study attempted to calculate the extent of this ecological overshoot of the human economy, and found that we are using 1.2 Earth's-worth of environmental goods and services—the implication being that at some point the debt will be called in, and all those services—the things which the planet does for us for free—will grind to a halt.

Its big selling point is that nobody else will have it: You won't see this kitchen anywhere else in the world.

Brown and the Stockholm declaration were both attempting to point out.

These factors have converged to create an increasingly impossible situation with many employees overworking to the point of burnout.

Advanced batteries are moving out of specialized markets and creeping into the mainstream, signaling a tipping point for forward-looking technologies such as electric cars and rooftop solar panels.

And I want to look at these both from a financial and from a personnel point of view and to offer a few hopefully effective solutions.

So what factors, at the community level, do predict if poor children will move up the economic ladder as adults? What explains, for instance, why the Salt Lake City metro area is one of the 100 largest metropolitan areas most likely to lift the fortunes of the poor and the Atlanta metro area is one of the least likely?Harvard economist Raj Chetty has pointed to economic and racial segregation, community density, the size of a community's middle class, the quality of schools, community religiosity, and family structure, which he calls the single strongest correlate of upward mobility.

As lighting expert Howard Brandston points out, Generally, there are no bad light sources, only bad applications.

As Vaclav Smil points out.

All of those specialized bulbs led to the building of specialized light fixtures, from the desk lamp you study by, to the ugly but beloved hand-painted Chinese lamp you inherited from your grandmother, to the ceiling fixture in your closet, to the light in your oven or refrigerator, and to the light that the dentist points at you.

A century's worth of calculated name changes point to the fact that naming any group is a politically freighted exercise.

With money and careful planning, we can boost efficiency up to a point.

While fully 64% of all U.S. high school graduates attend college of some point in their life, just 30% of the comparable German population, 28% of the French, 20% of the British, and 37%of the Japanese proceed beyond high school.

"A comparison point is in the 1990s battles over encryption," said Kurt Opsahl, general counsel of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a privacy watchdog group.

A bystander named John Roulstone wrote a poem about the event, then, at some point, Hale herself seems to have helped write it.

A century's worth of calculated name changes point to the fact that naming any group is a politically freighted exercise .

Anyway, from that point on, I was scared.

As the report authors point out, even near-misses might lead to the "creation of a burdensome regulatory framework and affect the future disposition of science CubeSats.

But a recent study seems to point to the fact that when matter and anti-matter were first created, there were slightly more particles of matter, which allowed the universe we all live in to form?

But was there any point in the video that you thought was particularly interesting?

Champions of this type of regenerative grazing also point to its animal welfare, climate and health benefits: Grass-fed animals live longer out of confinement.

In the US, studies have shown that doubling the size of a road can simply double the traffic, taking us back to the starting point.

It looks like it一after all, 2012 was the tipping point when more than half of Americans began owning smartphones.

London was a frequent starting point for Grand Tourists, and Paris a compulsory destination; many traveled to the Netherlands,some to Switzerland and Germany, and a very few adventurers to Spain, Greece, or Turkey.

More than that, Apple—and, in different ways, other tech companies, including Google, Facebook, Twitter and Microsoft—have made their opposition to the government's claims a point of corporate pride.

One recent study attempted to calculate the extent of this "ecological overshoot of the human economy", and found that we are using 1.2 Earth's-worth of environmental goods and services—the implication being that at some point the debt will be called in,

Perhaps a lot of them don't realize how well we're doing, because we don't make a point of publicizing.

Researchers also point to the time sink that is involved in preparing data for others to view.

So we make a point of never publicizing of the amount of money we make.

Some people are too subordinate to others' opinions, too focused on decision consensus, too silent about their own point of view, too agreeable to take things on when they don't have time or energy.

The consumer was ultimately to be mentioned as well, especially by the likes of Dorothy Shaver, who could point to the sales figures at Lord&Taylor.

The liquid is maintained above its melting point until steam is required, at which point the liquid is allowed to turn back into a solid, releasing its stored energy.

The year when most Americans began using smartphones was identified as a turning point in young Americans’ level of happiness.

These factors have converged to create an increasingly impossible situation with many employees overworking to the point of burnout.

These likely persistent forces, like the growth of shale oil, point to a "low for long" scenario.

This time around, Twenge and her team make a point of saying that they are not trying to establish causes as such, but that they are assessing the plausibility of potential causes.

Unfortunately, pieces of science journalism can also oversimplify and generalize their subject material to the point that the basic information conveyed is obscured or at worst, obviously wrong.

Usually a farmer will get to the point where financially, what they're doing is not working.

Whereas local collaborations sometimes persist past the point of usefulness because of social or academic obligations, international ones can be cultivated and dropped more freely.

A line graph looks similar to a bar graph, but instead of bars, it plots points and connects them with a line.

And if you have your lecture notes or the article in hand, you and the professor will be able to examine specific points that are confusing to you, rather than just talking in a general way about the contents.

And if you're upset about that, then what's the point?

At one point, huge piles of snow blocked his way.

At some point in all of our lives, we'll have our trust tested or violated.

At this point, when all the children were willing to share their experiences, I began to learn how to teach.

Athens reached the point when the freedom she really wanted was freedom from responsibility.

Beyond a certain point, though, further stress will only lead to exhaustion, illness and finally a breakdown.

But now, with the combination of a better price point and a generally fresher product, they can stay in business.

Captions usually summarize the author's main point as well.

Children typically change rules to find a point where their game is similar to the actual sport but still allows for play at their level.

Documenting the Thangmi language and culture is just a starting point for Turin, who seeks to include other languages and oral traditions across the himalayan reaches of India, Nepal, Bhutan, and China.

For football and basketball, adding talented players to a team proves a good method, but only up to the point where 70% of the players are top talent; above that level, the team's performance begins to decline.

Friedman points out that the green economy is a chance to keep American strength.

From that point Shackleton wanted to force a passage by dog sled across the continent.

From the governments' point of view, a primary goal of laws requiring extended producer responsibility is to transfer both the cost and the physical responsibility of waste management from the government and tax-payers back to the producers.

From the teacher's point of view, children should be left to decide what to read and how to read.

Getting to the top was definitely the high point.

Half of all college students change their major at some point.

Here are some important points that you may find helpful.

I then made it a point to attend those meetings and learn all I could.

If a basketball star is, for example, trying to gain a high personal point total, he may take a shot himself when it would be better to pass the ball to a teammate, affecting the team's performance.

If you don't do this, I will take away points from your grade.

In order not to be heard, she pointed her finger upwards to signal that someone was moving about upstairs.

Instead of introducing scientific theories, he tells a story, within which he tries to make his points, perhaps in order to keep the reader's attention.

It does point out that many parents still limit electronic reading, mainly due to concerns about increased screen time.

It was a cold March day in high point, north Carolina.

Make a point, and make it safe for others to do the same.

Many of the participants pointed to very specific elements in the play that they felt to be related.

One can never be sure that it is not on the point of breaking out into action only sure that it will do so sometime.

Over the years, there have been a number of different techniques to help designers approach this important point.

Papa would listen carefully and was ready with some comment, always to the point.

Points were awarded for part-time jobs, housework, effort in school, and ability to deal with problems.

Prevention is key, scientists says because once ecosystems pass their tipping point, it is remarkably difficult for them to return.

The intelligent transport team at newcastle university have turned an electric car into a mobile laboratory named "drivelab" in order to understand the challenges faced by older drivers and to discover where the key stress points are.

The low point of the sheet must be centered directly over, and no more than three inches above, the cup.

The story came to its turning point when Joe fell ill in 2007.

Their victory in America was still remembered as a major turning point in the history of Rock and Roll.

Then I got to the point where I was staying up really late at night to get my work done.

This is how much temperatures have risen since the industrial age began, putting US 40% of the way to the 2℃ point.

This is usually interpreted as a sign that today's parents are trying to manage their children's lives past the point where this behavior is appropriate.

To read a line graph, it's important to focus on the points of intersection rather than the line segments between the points.

Up to a certain point, the more stress you are under, the better your performance will be.

What the people wanted was a government which would provide a comfortable life for them; and with this as the primary object, ideas of freedom and self-reliance and responsibility were neglected to the point of disappearing.

Wilson first worked as a driver through a student-support programme of the non-profit organization, on point for college.

You must keep these points in mind while setting your goals.

We have no land ethic yet, but we have at least drawn nearer the point of admitting that birds should continue as a matter of intrinsic right,regardless of the presence or absence of economic advantage to us.

It is difficult to the point of impossibility for the average reader under the age of forty to imagine a time when high-quality arts criticism could be found in most big-city newspapers.

In his book The Tipping Point,Malcolm Aladuell argues that social epidemics are driven in large part by the acting of a tiny minority of special individuals,often called influentials,who are unusually informed,persuasive,or well-connected.

You can, Mr.Menand points out, become a lawyer in three years and a medical doctor in four.

Devoted concertgoers who reply that recordings are no substitute for live performance are missing the point.

Objective knowledge is the goal, not the starting point.

Mark Baldassare of the Public Policy Institute of California points out that much of the state’s budget is patrolled by unions.

John Donahue at Harvard’s Kennedy School points out that the norms of culture in Western civil services suit those who want to stay put but is bad for high achievers.

But had Entergy kept its word, that debate would be beside the point.

One of these urges had to do with creating a state of peace in the midst of turbulence, a “still point of the turning world,” to borrow a phrase from T.

DNT does not seem an obviously huge selling point for windows 8-though the firm has compared some of its other products favourably with Google's on that count before.

They often include a certain amount of digging to test for buried materials at selected points across a landscape.

As Nature has pointed out before, there are some legitimate concerns about how science prizes—both new and old—are distributed.

This is hacking on an industrial scale ,as was acknowledged by Glenn Mulcaire, the man hired by the News of the World in 2001 to be the point person for phone hacking.

Ideally, different kinds of reading inform each other, and act as useful reference points for and counterbalances to one another.

Driving her point home, she continued: “It’s increasingly apparent that the absence of purpose, of a moral language within government, media or business could become one of the most dangerous foals for capitalism and freedom“.

The point of a style upgrade isn’t to become more vain or to spend more time passing over what to wear.

Optimists point out that technological upheaval has benefited workers in the past.

If it clears the House, this measure would still have to get through the Senate where someone is bound to point out that it amounts to the bare, bare minimum necessary to keep the Postal Service afloat, not comprehensive reform.

A pair of bills sponsored by Massachusetts state Senator Jason Lewis and House Speaker Pro Tempore Patricia Haddad, to ensure "gender parity" on boards and commissions, provide a case in point.

As Hagel notes, Brynjolfsson and McAfee indeed touched on this point in their book.

At any given point, I should have deep work scheduled for roughly the next month.

But the headlong push into bachelor's degrees for all—and the subtle devaluing of anything less—misses an important point: That's not the only thing the American economy needs.

But this distinction misses the point that it is processing and aggregation, not the mere possession of bits, that gives the data value.

Davidson's article is one of a number of pieces that have recently appeared making the point that the reason we have such stubbornly high unemployment and declining middle-class incomes today is largely because of the big drop in demand because of the Gre

Grade inflation—the gradual increase in average GPAs grade—point averages over the past few decades—is often considered a product of a consumer era in higher education, in which students are treated like customers to be pleased.

Happiness is not a point future and not a moment from the past, but a mindset that can be designed into the present.

If it clears the House, this measure would still have to get through the Senate-where someone is bound to point out that it amounts to the bare, bare minimum necessary to keep the Postal Service afloat, not comprehensive reform.

In his book The tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell argues that "social epidemics" are driven in large part by the actions of a tiny minority of special individuals, often called influentials, who are unusually informed, persuasive, or well-connected.

That might seem rather an obscure point, but it sets the tone for an exhibition that contains a lot of black-and-white photographs and relatively few natural objects.

The point of a style upgrade isn't to become more vain or to spend more time fussing over what to wear.

This aversion to arguments is common, but it depends on a mistaken view of arguments that causes profound problems for our personal and social lives- and in many ways misses the point of arguing in the first place.

This is hacking on an industrial scale, as was acknowledged by Glenn Mulcaire, the man hired by the News of the World in 2001 to be the point person for phone hacking.

When you meet a person for the first time, make an effort to find the things which you and that person have in common so that you can build the conversation from that point.

While the statement is vague, it represents one starting point.

Young and old converge on one key point: Overwhelming majorities of both groups said they believe it is harder for young people today to get started in life than it was for earlier generations.

词组搭配

at all points

in every part or respect

在各部分；在各方面；完全地

case in point

an instance or example that illustrates what is being discussed

恰当的例子

the ‘green revolution’ in agriculture is a good case in point.
农业上的“绿色革命”就是一个很好的恰当例子。

in point of fact

the ‘green revolution’ in agriculture is a good case in point.
农业上的“绿色革命”就是一个很好的恰当例子。

make one's point

put across a proposition clearly and convincingly

（清楚地，有说服力地）阐明观点

off the point

irrelevant

不沾边，不相关

point the finger

openly accuse someone or apportion blame

公开指责，公开责备

the point of no return

the point in a journey or enterprise at which it becomes essential or more practical to continue to the end

只能进不能退的地步

point of sailing

a sailing boat's heading in relation to the wind

（帆船相对于风向的）艏向

score points

deliberately make oneself appear superior to someone else by making clever remarks

占欺头，在争辩中胜过

she was constantly trying to think of ways to score points off him.
她不断想法子占他的欺头。

take someone's point

(chiefly Brit.)accept the validity of someone's idea or argument

(主英)接受某人的观点（或立场）

up to a point

to some extent but not completely

在一定程度上，有一点

win on points

(Boxing)win by scoring more points than one's opponent (as awarded by the judges and/or the referee) rather than by a knockout

(拳击)以得分高（而不是击倒对手）取胜

point something out

direct someone's gaze or attention towards something, especially by extending one's finger

（为引人注目或注意而用手指）指出

[reporting verb]say something to make someone aware of a fact or circumstance

指出，指明

[with clause]she pointed out that his van had been in the car park all day.
她指出他的小货车一整天都在停车场。
[with direct speech]‘Most of the people round here are very poor,’ I pointed out.
我指出，“这里的人多数都很穷。”。

beside the point

Irrelevant to the matter at hand.

和手头的事无关的

实用场景例句

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。

'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。

'Did I ask you to talk to me?' — 'That's not the point.'...: “我请你跟我谈了吗？”——“问题不在这儿。”

The American Congress and media mostly missed the point about all this.: 美国国会和媒体大都没搞清这一切的核心问题。

What was the point of thinking about him?...: 想他有什么用呢？

There was no point in staying any longer.: 再留下来就没有意义了。

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。

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。

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。

This is FM stereo one oh three point seven...: 这里是调频立体声103.7。

Inflation at nine point four percent is the worst for eight years.: 9.4%的通货膨胀率是8年来最糟的。

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。

Sightseers arrived from all points of the compass.: 观光者来自四面八方。

...the rattle of the wheels across the points.: 驶过道岔的车轮发出的哐啷哐啷声

...too far away from the nearest electrical point.: 离最近的电掣位也太远

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。

David Khan pointed his finger at Mary...: 戴维·卡恩用手指指着玛丽。

A man pointed a gun at them and pulled the trigger.: 一名男子用手枪指着他们，扣动了扳机。

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。

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。

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。