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。
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Again, I always go to sea as a sailor, because they make a point of paying me for my trouble, whereas they never pay passengers a single penny that I ever heard of.
-- 'Point out my state-room, Sir,' says Jonah now, 'I'm travel-weary; I need sleep.'
-- It flew from right to left, and back again, almost in one ticking of a watch, and every instant seemed on the point of snapping into splinters.
-- But the directions he had given us about keeping a yellow warehouse on our starboard hand till we opened a white church to the larboard, and then keeping that on the larboard hand till we made a corner three points to the starboard, and that done, then ask the first man we met where the place was: these crooked directions of his very much puzzled us at first, especially as, at the outset, Queequeg insisted that the yellow warehouse our first point of departure must be left on the larboard hand, whereas I had understood Peter Coffin to say it was on the starboard.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There being nobody by, however, but a pauper old woman, who was rendered rather misty by an unwonted allowance of beer; and a parish surgeon who did such matters by contract; Oliver and Nature fought out the point between them.
-- The more the case presented itself to the board, in this point of view, the more manifold the advantages of the step appeared; so, they came to the conclusion that the only way of providing for Oliver effectually, was to send him to sea without delay.
-- But, now that fortune had cast in his way a nameless orphan, at whom even the meanest could point the finger of scorn, he retorted on him with interest.
-- At this point of Mr. Bumble's discourse, Oliver, just hearing enough to know that some allusion was being made to his mother, recommenced kicking, with a violence that rendered every other sound inaudible.
-- But Oliver's thoughts, like those of most other people, although they were extremely ready and active to point out his difficulties, were wholly at a loss to suggest any feasible mode of surmounting them; so, after a good deal of thinking to no particular purpose, he changed his little bundle over to the other shoulder, and trudged on.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'In point of composition,' said Mary, 'the letter does not seem defective.
-- Lady Cath-erine herself says that, in point of true beauty, Miss de Bourgh is far superior to the handsomest of her sex, be-cause there is that in her features which marks the young lady of distinguished birth.
-- But Elizabeth was not formed for ill-humour; and though every prospect of her own was destroyed for the evening, it could not dwell long on her spirits; and having told all her griefs to Charlotte Lucas, whom she had not seen for a week, she was soon able to make a voluntary transition to the oddities of her cousin, and to point him out to her particu-lar notice.
-- Mr. Collins listened to her with the determined air of following his own inclina-tion, and, when she ceased speaking, replied thus: 'My dear Miss Elizabeth, I have the highest opinion in the world in your excellent judgement in all matters with-in the scope of your understanding; but permit me to say, that there must be a wide difference between the es-tablished forms of ceremony amongst the laity, and those which regulate the clergy; for, give me leave to observe that I consider the clerical office as equal in point of dignity with the highest rank in the kingdom provided that a proper humility of behaviour is at the same time maintained.
-- You must therefore allow me to follow the dictates of my con-science on this occasion, which leads me to perform what I look on as a point of duty.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Several times I was obliged to land for fresh water, after we had left this place; and once in particular, being early in morning, we came to an anchor under a little point of land, which was pretty high; and the tide beginning to flow, we lay still to go farther in.
-- This cost me as much thought as a statesman would have bestowed upon a grand point of politics, or a judge upon the life and death of a man.
-- Having secured my boat, I took my gun and went on shore, climbing up a hill, which seemed to overlook that point where I saw the full extent of it, and resolved to ven-ture.
-- About four o'clock in the evening, being then within a league of the island, I found the point of the rocks which oc-casioned this disaster stretching out, as is described before, to the southward, and casting off the current more south-erly, had, of course, made another eddy to the north; and this I found very strong, but not directly setting the way my course lay, which was due west, but almost full north.
-- But I had a strange uneasi-ness in my mind to go down to the point of the island where, as I have said in my last ramble, I went up the hill to see how the shore lay, and how the current set, that I might see what I had to do: this inclination increased upon me every day, and at length I resolved to travel thither by land, following the edge of the shore.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I could not be happy with a man whose taste did not in every point coincide with my own.
-- Though her late conversation with her daughter-in-law had made her resolve on remaining at Norland no longer than was unavoidable, it had not produced the smallest effect on her in that point to which it principally tended.
-- He said much of his earnest desire of their living in the most sociable terms with his family, and pressed them so cordially to dine at Barton Park every day till they were better settled at home, that, though his entreaties were carried to a point of perseverance beyond civility, they could not give offence.
-- The arrival of a new family in the country was always a matter of joy to him, and in every point of view he was charmed with the inhabitants he had now procured for his cottage at Barton.
-- On this point Sir John could give more certain intelligence; and he told them that Mr. Willoughby had no property of his own in the country; that he resided there only while he was visiting the old lady at Allenham Court, to whom he was related, and whose possessions he was to inherit; adding, "Yes, yes, he is very well worth catching I can tell you, Miss Dashwood; he has a pretty little estate of his own in Somersetshire besides; and if I were you, I would not give him up to my younger sister, in spite of all this tumbling down hills.
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