on the point of
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英
- prep.正要N；将要N
- 网络正要…的时候；正要…之际；即将…的时候
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As if she was on the point of death as some rumors have suggested, the guerillas might be less intransigent.
因为，如果如传言所说，她已经到了死亡的边缘，那么反动分子也许就不会做出这一让步了。
When it began to rain, he was on the point of leaving for the railway station.
正当他要动身去火车站时，天开始下起雨来。
On the point of their divorce, she demanded on his returning to her all the lot she has brought as her marriage portion.
离婚时，她要求男方把她结婚时带过来的嫁妆全部还给她。
While the procession passed, the child was uneasy, fluttering up and down, like a bird on the point of taking flight.
当游行队伍走过时，珠儿就象一只跃跃欲飞的鸟儿一般不安地跳起又落下。
so that, by the time the captain's party was ready to sail, there were several other whaling vessels on the point of starting.
于是，到船长的捕鲸队准备停当的时候，几艘其他的捕鲸船也正要出发了。
Two of her girls had been on the point of marriage, and after all there was nothing in it.
两个女儿本来快要出嫁了，到头来只落得一场空。
"See how near I may have been to another sort of life, " he wrote of himself at 20 when he had been on the point of auditioning as an actor.
“看，我差点就过另一种生活了，”他20岁的时候写自己，彼时，他正作为一个演员去试音。
But after pumping for one whole night, they were losing the battle against the rising water and were on the point of giving up.
但是经过一整夜的抽水之后，他们没能战胜不断上升的水，他快要放弃努力了。
He was on the point of giving up when his father told him that he could go there.
他正要放弃，这时他父亲告诉他，可以去那里。
She was on the point of being guilty of a silly speech, so melted was she at heart.
她的心软得差一点说出一段湖涂话来。
This bubble is not on the point of collapse, but is likely to deflate as funds adjust to the lower returns that are likely going forward.
这一泡沫还没有到破裂的时候，但随着基金做出调整，以适应未来可能出现的较低回报率，这一泡沫可能变小。
Throughout the novel, Dickens enlarges on this theme, describing slums so decrepit that whole rows of houses are on the point of ruin.
整个小说，狄更斯扩大这个主题，描述贫民窟，使整个排破旧的房屋都在点毁掉。
A century old, it squatted on the point of an old pike that had been bolted to the outer top of the Hold's wall.
它蹲坐于要塞外墙顶端固定着的古老长矛尖上已有一个世纪之久。
The woman stared at him with the look that signifies: "Is the person who is addressing me on the point of going mad? "
女人呆望着他，那神气仿佛是在想：“和我谈话的这个人难道疯了？”
He listened to her breathing: she still breathed, but with a respiration which seemed to him weak and on the point of extinction.
他听她的呼吸，她还吐着气，但是他觉得她的气息已经弱到快要停止了。
Dream, in the dry skies, the sky in just a few drops of rain, on the point of crimson Manshan opened.
梦里，在干燥的天空下，上天仅用几滴雨，就点开了满山的绯红。
You and I are on the point of quitting the theater of our exploits.
你我正在离开我们辉煌业绩的舞台。
and Mrs. Norris thought it an excellent plan, and had it at her tongue's end, and was on the point of proposing it, when Mrs. Grant spoke.
诺里斯太太说，她认为这是个极好的计划.她本来一直想说的，刚要提出来的时候，格兰特太太先说出了。
I must let the first one get a good hold and hit him on the point of the nose or straight across the top of the head, he thought.
我必须让第一条鲨鱼好好咬住了才打它的鼻尖，或者直朝它头顶正中打去，他想。
On the point of view, this paper is divided into two parts of the body and concluding remarks.
围绕上述观点，本文主要分为正文和结束语两部分。
She was on the point of being guilty of a silly speech, so melted was she at heart.
她的心软得差一点说出一段湖涂话来。
You would be surprised to hear how often I watched you, how often I was on the point of falling in with you.
听说我经常守望你们，经常差一点被你们撞见，你会感到惊奇。
Like a man on the point of dying, it takes unutterable delight in the enjoyment of its agony.
就好像人在临死之际，他用无法言喻的喜悦来享受濒死的痛苦。
and that our States are on the point of separation, only to meet hereafter for the purpose of cutting one another's throats.
以为我们各邦正处在分崩离析的边缘，此后每次见面，都不过是为了彼此掐断对方的喉咙。
However, he could not start at once because he was on the point of flying to India where he would have no time to himself.
但是，他无法马上就着手开始，因为他正要飞往印度，在印度他就没有自己的时间了。
When ambulance staff arrived they saw the girl was on the point of giving birth and rushed her to a nearby building where she had her baby.
当医护人员人员赶到时，他们发现该女孩正处在分娩点，就赶紧把她送到附近的大楼里，在那里她顺利产下她的孩子。
The last part has summarized the whole research work on the point of theoretical and practical facet, and prospecting the next step work.
最后一部分对全文的研究工作从理论和实践两个方面进行总结，并且对进一步的工作进行了分析和展望。
In too many countries, the health systems to do that either do not exist or are on the point of collapse.
在太多的国家，开展这项工作的卫生系统不存在，或者面临崩溃。
An ant went to the bank of a river to quench its thirst, and being carried away by the rush of the stream, was on the point of drowning.
一只蚂蚁去河的岸熄灭它的口渴，而且陷入忘我之境藉着水流的匆促，在溺死的点上。
Given the growth of political Islam, and the fact that Mr Pollack deems many Arab countries to be on the point of revolution, perhaps not.
考虑到伊斯兰政治力量不断增长，和珀拉克认为许多阿拉伯国家即将爆发革命的事实，答案是：不大可能。
The poor girl did not answer my questions, frowned, and was on the point of tears.
可怜的姑娘不回答我的问题，皱着眉头，在她正要哭了的时候。
I was about to call on you. I was just going to call on you. I was on the point of calling on you.
我正要去拜访你。
He had been on the point of kissing that too tempting mouth, but he checked himself, for tender conscience' sake.
他正要去吻那张迷人的小嘴，但是由于他温柔的良知而克制住了自己。
We were on the point of setting when it began to rain.
我们正要出发这时天下雨了。
Libya he insisted, had been on the point of developing its own nuclear weapon.
他说，利比亚曾经到了要发展自己核武器的地步。
Perhaps a dozen times George Willard and the strange, shapeless man who lived at his father's hotel had been on the point of talking.
也许有十二、三次，乔治·威拉德和这住在他父亲旅馆的古怪畸形的人，几乎要谈起话来。
On the point of effective corrosion and reservoir protection, optimized the best using concentrations of different acid.
从有效溶蚀和储层保护的角度出发，优选出不同酸液的最佳使用浓度。
When I think of what I was on the point of doing, I consider that I am to be envied.
当我想到我刚才正是在做这件事时，我觉得自己是值得羡慕的。
she was dark , small and fat , quite young , with black hair that seemed always on the point of coming down.
她又黑又矮，胖乎乎的，相当年轻，一头乌黑的头发看上去好象总是要散下来。
This enthusiastic impulse was on the point of becoming poignant for Jean Valjean. He gently removed Cosette's arms, and took his hat.
这种激动的感情正要使冉阿让变得非常伤心，他慢慢地离开珂赛特的手臂并且拿起他的帽子。
On the point of contradiction, both face it bravely and do not accused.
在有矛盾分歧处，敢于面对并不怕相互指责。
