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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Gradgrind greatly tormented his mind about what the people read in this library: a point whereon little rivers of tabular statements periodically flowed into the howling ocean of tabular statements, which no diver ever got to any depth in and came up sane.
-- The answer was so long in coming, though there was no indecision in it, that Tom went and leaned on the back of her chair, to contemplate the fire which so engrossed her, from her point of view, and see what he could make of it.
-- After all the trouble that has been taken with you!After the lectures you have attended, and the experiments you have seen!After I have heard you myself, when the whole of my right side has been benumbed, going on with your master about combustion, and calcination, and calorification, and I may say every kind of ation that could drive a poor invalid distracted, to hear you talking in this absurd way about sparks and ashes!I wish,' whimpered Mrs. Gradgrind, taking a chair, and discharging her strongest point before succumbing under these mere shadows of facts, 'yes, I really do wish that I had never had a family, and then you would have known what it was to do without me!'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I determined therefore to argue the point after dinner.
-- "The very point to which I am coming.
-- He is careful therefore to point the exact one which is the highway into the Interior of the Earth.
-- The Sund, or Sound as we call it, could be discovered beyond the point of Elsinore, crowded with white sails, which, at that distance looked like the wings of seagulls; while to the east could be made out the far-off coast of Sweden.
-- Towards evening the schooner doubled Cape Skagen, the northernmost part of Denmark, crossed the Skagerrak during the night--skirted the extreme point of Norway through the gut of Cape Lindesnes, and then reached the Northern Seas.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'The whole point about the sexual problem,' said Ham-mond, who was a tall thin fellow with a wife and two children, but much more closely connected with a typewrit-er, 'is that there is no point to it.
-- But the point of an excursion is that you come home again.
-- There's no point in a disintegrated life.
-- The point is, what sort of a time can a man give a woman?
-- That was her own private affair, and the one point on which, in her own queer, female way, she was serious to the bottom of her soul.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The line of demarcation between the two colours, black and blue, showed the point which the pure sea would not pass; but it lay as quiet as the abominable pool, with which it never mixed.
-- that John Baptist felt it a point of honour to reply at the grate, and in good time and tune, though a little hoarsely:'Of all the king's knights 'tis the flower,Compagnon de la Majolaine!Of all the king's knights 'tis the flower,Always gay!'
-- Miles of close wells and pits of houses, where the inhabitants gasped for air, stretched far away towards every point of the compass.
-- Mr Flintwinch taking kindly to the idea of getting rid of him, and his mother being indifferent, beyond considerations of saving, to most domestic arrangements that were not bounded by the walls of her own chamber, he easily carried this point without new offence.
-- At this difficult point of the conversation Bob gave in, and changed the subject to hard-bake: always his last resource when he found his little friend getting him into a political, social, or theological corner.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Act fourth displayed the despairing Roderigo on the point of stabbing himself because he has been told that Zara has deserted him.
-- 'Your hands are bigger than mine, and you will stretch my glove dreadfully,' began Meg, whose gloves were a ten-der point with her.
-- Jo's one strong point was the fruit, for she had sugared it well, and had a pitcher of rich cream to eat with it.
-- Meg obediently following the long grass-blade which her new tutor used to point with, read slowly and timidly, un-consciously making poetry of the hard words by the soft intonation of her musical voice.
-- Beth opened her lips to say something, but could only point to the pile of nicely mended hose which lay on Moth-er's table, showing that even in her last hurried moments she had thought and worked for them.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Well, then, however the old sea-captains may order me about however they may thump and punch me about, I have the satisfaction of knowing that it is all right; that everybody else is one way or other served in much the same way either in a physical or metaphysical point of view, that is; and so the universal thump is passed round, and all hands should rub each other's shoulder-blades, and be content.
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