point是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 尖； 点； 条款； 分数， 得分； 论点v. (at， to) 指，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Through the prayer Martin sat with his forehead in his hand, feeling foolish, and raving, "I guess this is the proper attitude-- they're all gawping at me--gosh, won't he ever quit?--oh, damn it, now what was that point I was going to make about fumigation?--oh, Lord, he's winding up and I've got to shoot!"
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The young man took it, and was so angry that he 14 Crime and Punishmentwas on the point of going away; but checked himself at once, remembering that there was nowhere else he could go, and that he had had another object also in coming.
-- What's the point of it?
-- He was an exceptionally good-humoured and candid youth, good-natured to the point of simplicity, though both depth and dignity lay concealed under that simplicity.
-- Later on, when he recalled that time and all that hap-pened to him during those days, minute by minute, point by point, he was superstitiously impressed by one circum-stance, which, though in itself not very exceptional, always seemed to him afterwards the predestined turning-point of his fate.
-- They talk of duty, conscience I don't want to say anything against duty and conscience; but the point is, what do we mean by them.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Really- really- as Mr. Chillip told my mother, he was almostshocked; speaking in a professional point of view alone he wasalmost shocked.
-- But at this point Peggotty- I mean myown peculiar Peggotty- made such impressive motions to me not to 39ask any more questions, that I could only sit and look at all thesilent company, until it was time to go to bed.
-- But Iwas no sooner turned towards it, than my reproachful youngconscience seemed to point that way with a steady finger; and Ifelt, all the more for the sinking of my spirits, that it was my nest,and that my mother was my comforter and friend.
-- Though there was nothing very airy about Miss Murdstone, shewas a perfect Lark in point of getting up.
-- I tumble downbefore I get to the old place, at a point where I was all right before, 57and stop to think.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You might not give Emma such a com-plete education as your powers would seem to promise; but you were receiving a very good education from her, on the very material matrimonial point of submitting your own will, and doing as you were bid; and if Weston had asked me to recommend him a wife, I should certainly have named Miss Taylor.'
-- Harriet was on the point of leaving the room, and only stopt to say, with a very interesting naivete, 'Oh!dear, no, never.'
-- This is a point which you must settle with your feelings.'
-- She did not repent what she had done; she still thought herself a better judge of such a point of female right and refinement than he could be; but yet she had a sort of habitual respect for his judg-ment in general, which made her dislike having it so loudly against her; and to have him sitting just opposite to her in angry state, was very disagreeable.
-- If he were, every thing else must give way; but oth-erwise his friend Cole had been saying so much about his dining with him had made such a point of it, that he had promised him conditionally to come.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When the waggon had passed on, Gabriel withdrew from his point of espial, and descending into the road, followed the vehicle to the turnpike-gate some way beyond the bottom of the hill, where the object of his contemplation now halted for the payment of toll.
-- "Here going through the plantation, and all down the hill," said Farmer Oak, with an aspect excessively knowing with regard to some matter in his mind, as he gazed at a remote point in the direction named, and then turned back to meet his colloquist's eyes.
-- It was a time to see a woman redden who was not given to reddening as a rule; not a point in the milkmaid but was of the deepest rose-colour.
-- Bathsheba had overtaken him at a point beside which stood a low stunted holly bush, now laden with red berries.
-- With a sensation of bodily faintness he advanced: at one point the rails were broken through, and there he saw the footprints of his ewes.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Dulness is their prevailing ingredient, and the whole point consists in mispronouncing a word or a gesture.
-- "No sooner does a trouble befall you than a friend is ready to bring the tidings and to probe your heart with the point of a dagger while calling on 莽卢卢38 茅隆碌 氓聟卤 142 茅隆碌 you to admire the handle.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- These reflections have dispelled the agitation with which I began my letter, and I feel my heart glow with an enthu-siasm which elevates me to heaven, for nothing contributes so much to tranquillize the mind as a steady purpose a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
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