point

英[pɔɪnt]美[pɔɪnt]

n.观点，要点，意义，目的，细节，特点，地点，时刻，尖，点，分，罗经点，插座；

v.指（向）向，瞄准，勾缝，表明，强调；

复数：points;

第三人称单数：points;

过去式：pointed;

过去分词：pointed;

现在分词：pointing;

例句

There's not much point in a meeting until he has something definite to put on the table.直到他有些明确的想法提出之前, 会议都没有什么意义。

To go back to the point you have just mentioned is worthless.再回头来谈论你的论点是毫无价值的。

How many imperial inches are there in one metric centimetre?—Naught point three nine three seven inches.一厘米等于多少英寸?——等于0.397英寸。

The people make it a point to esteem the art of conversation in France.在法国, 人们十分重视谈话技巧。

It is part of the chairman's duty to keep each speaker to the point to avoid wasting time.使每位发言人不离题, 少浪费时间, 是**的部分职责。

In discussing this problem, we ought to keep to the point at issue.讨论这个问题时, 我们应该抓住分歧点。

vantage point有利地点

the southernmost point of Greenland费尔韦尔角格陵兰岛的*南端

The joke did not obscure the underlying seriousness of his point.玩笑并没有掩盖他的观点隐含的严肃性。

He became very depressed and even got suicidal at one point.他变得十分消沉，甚至一度想自杀。

英语六级真题

These likely persistent forces, like the growth of shale ( ' , 页岩) oil, point to a low for long scenario.

The consumer was ultimately to be mentioned as well, especially by the likes of Dorothy Shaver, who could point to the sales figures at Lord & Taylor.

London was a frequent starting point for Grand Tourists, and Paris a compulsory destination; many traveled to the Netherlands, some to Switzerland and Germany, and a very few adventurers to Spain, Greece, or Turkey.

Agreement on an international carbon-price floor would be a good starting point in that process.

They point to the growing curiosity of TV viewers.

One recent study attempted to calculate the extent of this ecological overshoot of the human economy, and found that we are using 1.2 Earth's-worth of environmental goods and services—the implication being that at some point the debt will be called in, and all those services—the things which the planet does for us for free—will grind to a halt.

Its big selling point is that nobody else will have it: You won't see this kitchen anywhere else in the world.

Brown and the Stockholm declaration were both attempting to point out.

These factors have converged to create an increasingly impossible situation with many employees overworking to the point of burnout.

Advanced batteries are moving out of specialized markets and creeping into the mainstream, signaling a tipping point for forward-looking technologies such as electric cars and rooftop solar panels.

And I want to look at these both from a financial and from a personnel point of view and to offer a few hopefully effective solutions.

So what factors, at the community level, do predict if poor children will move up the economic ladder as adults? What explains, for instance, why the Salt Lake City metro area is one of the 100 largest metropolitan areas most likely to lift the fortunes of the poor and the Atlanta metro area is one of the least likely?Harvard economist Raj Chetty has pointed to economic and racial segregation, community density, the size of a community's middle class, the quality of schools, community religiosity, and family structure, which he calls the single strongest correlate of upward mobility.

As lighting expert Howard Brandston points out, Generally, there are no bad light sources, only bad applications.

As Vaclav Smil points out.

All of those specialized bulbs led to the building of specialized light fixtures, from the desk lamp you study by, to the ugly but beloved hand-painted Chinese lamp you inherited from your grandmother, to the ceiling fixture in your closet, to the light in your oven or refrigerator, and to the light that the dentist points at you.

A century's worth of calculated name changes point to the fact that naming any group is a politically freighted exercise.

With money and careful planning, we can boost efficiency up to a point.

While fully 64% of all U.S. high school graduates attend college of some point in their life, just 30% of the comparable German population, 28% of the French, 20% of the British, and 37%of the Japanese proceed beyond high school.

"A comparison point is in the 1990s battles over encryption," said Kurt Opsahl, general counsel of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a privacy watchdog group.

A bystander named John Roulstone wrote a poem about the event, then, at some point, Hale herself seems to have helped write it.

A century's worth of calculated name changes point to the fact that naming any group is a politically freighted exercise .

Anyway, from that point on, I was scared.

As the report authors point out, even near-misses might lead to the "creation of a burdensome regulatory framework and affect the future disposition of science CubeSats.

But a recent study seems to point to the fact that when matter and anti-matter were first created, there were slightly more particles of matter, which allowed the universe we all live in to form?

But was there any point in the video that you thought was particularly interesting?

Champions of this type of regenerative grazing also point to its animal welfare, climate and health benefits: Grass-fed animals live longer out of confinement.

In the US, studies have shown that doubling the size of a road can simply double the traffic, taking us back to the starting point.

It looks like it一after all, 2012 was the tipping point when more than half of Americans began owning smartphones.

London was a frequent starting point for Grand Tourists, and Paris a compulsory destination; many traveled to the Netherlands,some to Switzerland and Germany, and a very few adventurers to Spain, Greece, or Turkey.

More than that, Apple—and, in different ways, other tech companies, including Google, Facebook, Twitter and Microsoft—have made their opposition to the government's claims a point of corporate pride.

One recent study attempted to calculate the extent of this "ecological overshoot of the human economy", and found that we are using 1.2 Earth's-worth of environmental goods and services—the implication being that at some point the debt will be called in,

Perhaps a lot of them don't realize how well we're doing, because we don't make a point of publicizing.

Researchers also point to the time sink that is involved in preparing data for others to view.

So we make a point of never publicizing of the amount of money we make.

Some people are too subordinate to others' opinions, too focused on decision consensus, too silent about their own point of view, too agreeable to take things on when they don't have time or energy.

The consumer was ultimately to be mentioned as well, especially by the likes of Dorothy Shaver, who could point to the sales figures at Lord&Taylor.

The liquid is maintained above its melting point until steam is required, at which point the liquid is allowed to turn back into a solid, releasing its stored energy.

The year when most Americans began using smartphones was identified as a turning point in young Americans’ level of happiness.

These factors have converged to create an increasingly impossible situation with many employees overworking to the point of burnout.

These likely persistent forces, like the growth of shale oil, point to a "low for long" scenario.

This time around, Twenge and her team make a point of saying that they are not trying to establish causes as such, but that they are assessing the plausibility of potential causes.

Unfortunately, pieces of science journalism can also oversimplify and generalize their subject material to the point that the basic information conveyed is obscured or at worst, obviously wrong.

Usually a farmer will get to the point where financially, what they're doing is not working.

Whereas local collaborations sometimes persist past the point of usefulness because of social or academic obligations, international ones can be cultivated and dropped more freely.

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

N-COUNT

观点；看法；论点

You use point to refer to something that someone has said or written.

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N-SING

论据；道理

If you say that someone has a point, or if you take their point, you mean that you accept that what they have said is important and should be considered.

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N-SING

要点；核心问题

The point of what you are saying or discussing is the most important part that provides a reason or explanation for the rest.

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N-SING

意义；目的；作用

If you ask what the point of something is, or say that there is no point in it, you are indicating that a particular action has no purpose or would not be useful.

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细节；方面；特性

A point is a detail, aspect, or quality of something or someone.

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地点；地方；（表示位置的）点，处

A point is a particular place or position where something happens.

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N-SING

（某一）时刻，阶段

You use point to refer to a particular time, or to a particular stage in the development of something.

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尖；尖端；尖头

The point of something such as a pin, needle, or knife is the thin, sharp end of it.

（口语中表示）小数点

In spoken English, you use point to refer to the dot or mark in a decimal number that separates the whole numbers from the fractions.

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（用作某些体育运动等计分单位的）点，分

In some sports, competitions, and games, a point is one of the single marks that are added together to give the total score.

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罗经（方位）点

The points of the compass are directions such as North, South, East, and West.

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N-PLURAL

（铁轨的）轨尖，道岔

On a railway track, the points are the levers and rails at a place where two tracks join or separate. The points enable a train to move from one track to another.

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插座

A point is an electric socket.

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VERB

（用手指）指

If you point at a person or thing, you hold out your finger towards them in order to make someone notice them.

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VERB

把…对准；使朝向

If you point something at someone, you aim the tip or end of it towards them.

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指向；朝向

If something points to a place or points in a particular direction, it shows where that place is or it faces in that direction.

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显示；表明

If something points to a particular situation, it suggests that the situation exists or is likely to occur.

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VERB

着重指出；强调；以…为证明

If you point to something that has happened or that is happening, you are using it as proof that a particular situation exists.

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VERB

（用水泥等）勾嵌（砖或石墙的砌缝）

When builders point a wall, they put a substance such as cement into the gaps between the bricks or stones in order to make the wall stronger and seal it.

PHRASE

离题的；不相关的

If you say that something is beside the point, you mean that it is not relevant to the subject that you are discussing.

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PHRASE

谈到正题；讲到关键问题

When someone comes to the point or gets to the point, they start talking about the thing that is most important to them.

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PHRASE

证明自己的论点

If you make your point or prove your point, you prove that something is true, either by arguing about it or by your actions or behaviour.

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特意；故意

If you make a point of doing something, you do it in a very deliberate or obvious way.

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PHRASE

正要…之际；就要…之时

If you are on the point of doing something, you are about to do it.

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PHRASE

切题的；中肯的

Something that is to the point is relevant to the subject that you are discussing, or expressed neatly without wasting words or time.

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有一点；在一定程度上

If you say that something is true up to a point, you mean that it is partly but not completely true.

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英汉词典释义

n.

要点, 重点, 核心问题, 论点, 观点, 见解

尖端; 尖儿; 尖头

点; 小数点

(某一)时刻, 关头, 瞬间, 阶段; 某地方, 地点

分数, 得分

目的, 意图, 理由

条款; 细目; 具体细节（或事实）

特点；特性；特征

重点；核心问题

具体细节（或事实）

特点；特性；特征

时刻；关头；瞬间；阶段

小数点；点

观点，想法；论据；道理

[常作复数](道岔处的)尖轨；(两轨相交的)轨尖；道岔

瞄准；指向；指点；标示

(针灸、推拿等的)穴位

vt.

削尖

增强

指路; 指点; 指向; 引导; 指引

（用灰泥）抹砖缝，勾缝

(足尖点地跳舞时)绷直脚(或腿)

使尖锐；加强；强调(通常与 up 连用)

给…加标点；打上点；给…加元音符号；给…加小数点(与 off 连用)

瞄准

对着；朝向

（意思上）指向；引导；指引

指路；指点

（用灰泥）抹砖缝，勾缝

vt. & vi.

指; 指向

对着；朝向

vi.

(为对付某一对手而)进行强化训练(for)

瞄准

暗示；表明；注意；提到

英英词典释义

Noun

1. a geometric element that has position but no extension;

2. the precise location of something; a spatially limited location;

3. a brief version of the essential meaning of something;

4. a specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process;

5. an isolated fact that is considered separately from the whole;

6. an instant of time;

7. the object of an activity;

8. a V shape;

9. a very small circular shape;

10. the unit of counting in scoring a game or contest;

11. a promontory extending out into a large body of water;

12. a distinct part that can be specified separately in a group of things that could be enumerated on a list;

13. a style in speech or writing that arrests attention and has a penetrating or convincing quality or effect

14. an outstanding characteristic;

15. sharp end;

16. any of 32 horizontal directions indicated on the card of a compass;

17. a linear unit used to measure the size of type; approximately 1/72 inch

18. a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations;

19. a V-shaped mark at one end of an arrow pointer;

20. the property of a shape that tapers to a sharp point

21. a distinguishing or individuating characteristic;

22. the gun muzzle's direction;

23. a wall socket

24. a contact in the distributor; as the rotor turns its projecting arm contacts distributor points and current flows to the spark plugs

Verb

1. indicate a place, direction, person, or thing; either spatially or figuratively;

2. be oriented;

3. direct into a position for use;

4. direct the course; determine the direction of travelling

5. be a signal for or a symptom of;

6. sail close to the wind

7. mark (Hebrew words) with diacritics

8. mark with diacritics;

9. mark (a psalm text) to indicate the points at which the music changes

10. be positionable in a specified manner;

11. intend (something) to move towards a certain goal;

12. give a point to;

13. repair the joints of bricks;

行业词典

体育： 使船迎风航行；

动物学： 翎骨针；

医学： 点，尖；出现脓头：脓肿的脓液接近表面；根管探针：一逐渐变细的牙科器械，在根管治疗时用以探测根管深度；标记，标点：测量用的标志；圆锥：长形银制或古塔波胶制圆锥，用于根管填塞；

数学： 点；

机械： 逐点比较法, point-to-point comparison method 采用正弦激励，在频率测量范围内所选频率点，逐点测量被测传感器频率响应并与标准传感器响应相比较的方法。；点到点控制系统, point-to-point control system 只是使运动由某一点到达另一指定的点，而不对运动的路径进行控制的一种数值控制系统。；

水产： 边傍,网片边缘纵向相邻两根目脚组成的结构。；

物理学： ［类］点粒子；［point-like］ particle；