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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Then it is Calcutta, M. Paganel, that you have chosen as your point of departure on your travels?"
-- Jacques Paganel would not lose a single point of view, nor a single detail of the straits.
-- At Cape Momax the straits widened, and she was able to get round Narborough Isles and advance in a more southerly direction, till at length the rock of Cape Pilares, the extreme point of Desolation Island, came in sight, thirty-six hours after entering the straits.
-- "My advice is to follow the 37th parallel from the point where it touches the American continent to where it dips into the Atlantic, without deviating from it half a degree, and possibly in some part of its course we shall fall in with the shipwrecked party."
-- These we shall pass by, and cross over the Sierra Tandil, pursuing our search to the very shores of the Atlantic, as far as Point Medano."
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I understand that the yew hedge is penetrated at one point by a gate?'
-- That may point to carelessness or it may point to agitation and hurry upon the part of the cutter.
-- But the practical point which we now have to decide, Sir Henry, is whether it is or is not advisable for you to go to Basker-ville Hall.'
-- From this central point two long corridors extended the whole length of the build-ing, from which all the bedrooms opened.
-- How could I settle the point forever?
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For in-stance, he made a point of never asserting himself when he would gain more by keeping in the background; and in con-sequence many exalted personages valued him principally for his humility and simplicity, and because 'he knew his place.'
-- The prince did not hear the rest, because at this point the servant continued his communication in a whisper.
-- The prince's expression was so good-natured at this moment, and so entirely free from even a suspicion of un-pleasant feeling was the smile with which he looked at the general as he spoke, that the latter suddenly paused, and ap-peared to gaze at his guest from quite a new point of view, all in an instant.
-- However, the special point to which the two friends partic-ularly trusted to bring about their object (namely, Gania's attractiveness for Nastasia Philipovna), stood out more and more prominently; the pourparlers had commenced, and gradually even Totski began to believe in the possibility of success.
-- There is one point that cannot be forgotten, round which everything else dances and turns about; and because of this point he cannot faint, and this lasts until the very final quarter of a second, when the wretched neck is on the block and the victim listens and waits and KNOWS that's the point, he KNOWS that he is just NOW about to die, and listens for the rasp of the iron over his head.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His one observation to the point was concerning the chances of work in Chicago.
-- She was pleased to see her in a way but reflected her husband's point of view in the matter of work.
-- Minnie pondered a while, not upon whether she could or would go-- for that point was already negatively settled with her--but upon some means of diverting the thoughts of her sister to some other topic.
-- She was not hungry at all, but weak, and her eyes were tired, straining at the one point where the eye-punch came down.
-- She had no sooner entered the flat than this point was settled for her.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'But hang it, Jim, you've clean missed the point blame it, you've missed it a thousand mile.'
-- And, besides, I've already told 'em to put on another plate when I see you coming; so you mustn't disap- point us.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Unfortunately the Cat received a telegram which said that his first-born was suffering from chilblains and was on the point of death.
-- This was when Alidoro (that was the Mastiff's name), in a frenzy of running, came so near that he was on the very point of reaching him.
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