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。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He struck at the projecting part of his helmet and drove the spear into his brow; the point of bronze pierced the bone, and darkness veiled his eyes; headlong as a tower he fell amid the press of the fight, and as he dropped King Elephe-nor, son of Chalcodon and captain of the proud Abantes began dragging him out of reach of the darts that were fall-ing around him, in haste to strip him of his armour.
-- Ulysses, infuriated by the death of his comrade, hit him with his spear on one temple, and the bronze point came through on the other side of his forehead.
-- As he was leaving the body, Thoas of Aetolia struck him in the chest near the nipple, and the point fixed itself in his lungs.
-- The point of the spear went through the bone into the blad-der, and death came upon him as he cried aloud and fell forward on his knees.
-- In my father's stables there are eleven excel-lent chariots, fresh from the builder, quite new, with cloths spread over them; and by each of them there stand a pair of horses, champing barley and rye; my old father Lycaon urged me again and again when I was at home and on the point of starting, to take chariots and horses with me that I might lead the Trojans in battle, but I would not listen to him; it would have been much better if I had done so, but I was thinking about the horses, which had been used to eat their fill, and I was afraid that in such a great gathering of men they might be ill-fed, so I left them at home and came on foot to Ilius armed only with my bow and arrows.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Tis going, and it strikes well and hearty; but the hour-hand won't do nuthin' but point at six."
-- CHAPTER XII THE INVISIBLE MAN LOSES HIS TEMPER It is unavoidable that at this point the narrative should break off again, for a certain very painful reason that will presently be apparent.
-- He seemed on the point of some great resolution.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was on the point of beginning, and then shook his head, doubtfully.
-- From one point a thin white thread of vapour rose slantingly to an immense height, and then frayed out like a down feather.
-- A little point of light shone on the further bend of the curve, and the grey sweep of the sandy beach lay faint under the star-light.
-- Perhaps two miles away was that little point of light.
-- He said that was so, and proceeded to point out that the possibility of vivisection does not stop at a mere physi-cal metamorphosis.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Bagheera gave him half a dozen love-taps from a pan-ther's point of view (they would hardly have waked one of his own cubs), but for a seven-year-old boy they amounted to as severe a beating as you could wish to avoid.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In point of fact, the country which is the scene of the following tale has undergone as little change, since the historical events alluded to had place, as almost any oth-er district of equal extent within the whole limits of the United States.
-- There is one point on which we would wish to say a word before closing this preface.
-- With the high plain that there inter-posed itself to the further passage of the water, commenced a portage of as many miles, which conducted the adven-turer to the banks of the Hudson, at a point where, with the usual obstructions of the rapids, or rifts, as they were then termed in the language of the country, the river be-came navigable to the tide.
-- The novice in the military art flew from point to point, retarding his own preparations by the excess of his violent and somewhat distempered zeal; while the more practiced veteran made his arrangements with a deliberation that scorned every appearance of haste; though his sober linea-ments and anxious eye sufficiently betrayed that he had no very strong professional relish for the, as yet, untried and dreaded warfare of the wilderness.
-- The first point to be obtained is to know one's own mind.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was bigger than I expected: I do not know why I had imagined him slender and of insignificant appearance; in point of fact he was broad and heavy, with large hands and feet, and he wore his evening clothes clumsily.
-- In point of fact I've not spoken to a soul for three days.
-- I might have spoken of the economic position of woman, of the contract, tacit and overt, which a man accepts by his marriage, and of much else; but I felt that there was only one point which really signified.
-- Chapter XVIIIIn point of fact, I met Strickland before I had been a fortnight in Paris.
-- I was on the point of chaffing him on his state.
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