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《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Beneath the lower point of the balloon swung a car, containing five passengers, scarcely visible in the midst of the thick vapor mingled with spray which hung over the surface of the ocean.
-- Perceiving their danger, the passengers cast away the last articles which still weighed down the car, the few provisions they had kept, everything, even to their pocket-knives, and one of them, having hoisted himself on to the circles which united the cords of the net, tried to secure more firmly the lower point of the balloon.
-- The nearest point of the beach he could reach was thus fully that distance off.
-- They found themselves at the extremity of a sharp point on which the sea broke furiously.
-- This side of the promontory evidently formed a semicircular bay, which the sharp point sheltered from the breakers of the open sea.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was a great point too that Kit himself was flattered by the sensation he created, and after several efforts to preserve his gravity, burst into a loud roar, and so stood with his mouth wide open and his eyes nearly shut, laughing violently.
-- These opinions being equally incontrovertible with those he had already pronounced, he went on to inform us that Jamaica rum, though unquestionably an agreeable spirit of great richness and flavour, had the drawback of remaining constantly present to the taste next day; and nobody being venturous enough to argue this point either, he increased in confidence and became yet more companionable and communicative.
-- Beset by these opposing considerations, Mrs Jiniwin admitted the powers of insinuation, but denied the right to govern, and with a timely compliment to the stout lady brought back the discussion to the point from which it had strayed.
-- Having now carried his point and insisted on it, he left off.
-- This was prudent, for in point of fact, the dwarf, knowing his disposition, was lying in wait at a little distance from the sash armed with a large piece of wood, which, being rough and jagged and studded in many parts with broken nails, might possibly have hurt him.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The old maiden chided them for the cream and for permitting the woman to lie in the cow-shed, and was on the point of departing, but noticing the child, was moved to pity, and afterward consented to stand godmother to the child.
-- As he thought of the previous evening, spent at the Korchagins, a wealthy and influential family, whose daughter, rumor had it, he was to marry, he sighed, and throwing away the butt of his cigarette, he was on the point of taking another from the silver cigarette holder, but changed his mind.
-- He also apologized for his failure to send the three thousand rubles due on the first of the month, which he would send by the next mail, explaining it by the difficulty of collecting the rents from the peasants whose bad faith had reached a point where it became necessary to resort to the courts to collect them.
-- At this point Maslova shuddered, and with open mouth looked at Bochkova.
-- At this point the assistant public prosecutor half rose from his seat, uncomfortably resting on one elbow.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "That's a simple point of psychology.
-- Either I missed some subtle point or their language was excessively simple almost exclusively composed of concrete substantives and verbs.
-- Yet a certain feeling, you may understand, tethered me in a circle of a few miles round the point of my arrival.
-- When I realised this, I hurriedly slipped off my clothes, and, wading in at a point lower down, I caught the poor mite and drew her safe to land.
-- No doubt it will seem grotesque enough to you and wildly incredible! and yet even now there are existing circumstances to point that way.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I'll settle it,' Alice said to herself, 'when the road divides and they point different ways.'
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Soon after, the lugger doubled the point and disappeared.
-- "But the point is, had he money?"
-- Over on the back the same hand had written this further information:Tall tree, Spy-glass shoulder, bearing a point to the N. of N.N.E.
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