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。
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When I had arrived at this point and had become as well acquainted with the theory and practice of natural philosophy as depended on the lessons of any of the professors at Ingolstadt, my residence there being no longer conducive to my improvements, I thought of returning to my friends and my native town, when an incident happened that protracted my stay.
-- Not that, like a magic scene, it all opened upon me at once: the information I had obtained was of a nature rather to direct my endeavours so soon as I should point them to-wards the object of my search than to exhibit that object already accomplished.
-- I fear that he will become an idler unless we yield the point and permit him to enter on the profession which he has se-lected.
-- But he has already recovered his spirits, and is reported to be on the point of marrying a very lively, pretty French-woman, Madame Tavernier.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Near the house, Scarlett was at the point of speaking again when she saw her mother in the dim shadows of theporch.
-- The destination of the proposed railroad,Tennessee and the West, was clear and definite, but its beginning point in Georgia was somewhat uncertain until, ayear later, an engineer drove a stake in the red clay to mark the southern end of the line, and Atlanta, born Terminus,had begun.
-- Everyone knew in detail how he hadbeen expelled from West Point for drunkenness and "something about women."
-- Useless for the patriotic Mrs. Merriwether to upbraid her daughter and point out that homespun was theproper bridal attire for a Confederate bride.
-- Dr. Meade summed up the civilian point of view on the matter, one warm May evening on the veranda of AuntPitty's house, when he said that Atlanta had nothing to fear, for General Johnston was standing in the mountains like aniron rampart.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At this point Joe greatly augmented my curiosity by taking the utmost pains to open his mouth very wide, and to put it into the form of a word that looked to me like "sulks."
-- They seemed to think the opportunity lost, if they failed to point the conversation at me, every now and then, and stick the point into me.
-- If they had asked me any more questions, I should undoubtedly have betrayed myself, for I was even then on the point of mentioning that there was a balloon in the yard, and should have hazarded the statement but for my invention being divided between that phenomenon and a bear in the brewery.
-- What with the birthday visitors, and what with the cards, and what with the fight, my stay had lasted so long, that when I neared home the light on the spit of sand off the point on the marshes was gleaming against a black night-sky, and Joe's furnace was flinging a path of fire across the road.
-- Joe felt, as I did, that he had made a point there, and he pulled hard at his pipe to keep himself from weakening it by repetition.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The road led him up a mountain, and when he had reached the highest point of it, there sat a powerful giant looking peacefully about him.
-- The king ordered the man to be brought before him, and threatened with angry words that unless he could be-fore the morrow point out the thief, he himself should be looked upon as guilty and executed.
-- But when he was riding off with it, the king's atten-dants pursued him, and one of them got so near him that he wounded the youth's leg with the point of his sword.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I would not have dwelt so long upon a circumstance that, perhaps, at first sight, may ap-pear not very momentous, if I had not thought it necessary to justify my character, in point of cleanliness, to the world; which, I am told, some of my maligners have been pleased, upon this and other occasions, to call in question.
-- I should not have dwelt so long upon this particular, if it had not been a point wherein the reputation of a great lady is so nearly concerned, to say nothing of my own; though I then had the honour to be a nardac, which the treasurer himself is not; for all the world knows, that he is only a glumglum, a title inferior by one degree, as that of a marquis is to a duke in England; yet I allow he preceded me in right of his post.
-- He received it on the palm of his hand, then applied it close to his eye to see what it was, and afterwards turned it several times with the point of a pin (which he took out of his sleeve,) but could make nothing of it.
-- Yet thus much I may be allowed to say in my own vindication, that I artfully eluded many of his questions, and gave to every point a more favourable turn, by many degrees, than the strictness of truth would allow.
-- His majesty had given orders, that the island should move north-east and by east, to the vertical point over Lagado, the metropolis of the whole kingdom below, upon the firm earth.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Think of it, Bounderby, in that point of view.'
-- Still, although they differed in every other particular, conceivable and inconceivable (especially inconceivable), they were pretty well united on the point that these unlucky infants were never to wonder.
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