on the point of

on the point of什么意思,on the point of翻译

基本解释

prep.: 正要N；将要N
网络: 正要…的时候；正要…之际；即将…的时候

英汉解释

• 正要N;将要N

• 就要...的时候

• 正要,正想,刚要,正预备

• 说得坦率一些;说得难听一点

同义词

adv.about tonear toon the threshold ofconsideringset to

例句

• 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。