四级But in recent years the capital's culinary (烹饪的) scene has developed to the point that it is now confident of its ability to please the tastes of any international visitor.

但近年来首都的烹饪(烹饪的) 这一场景已经发展到现在，它有信心能够满足任何国际游客的口味。

2011年6月阅读原文

高考And if you're upset about that, then what's the point?

如果你对此感到不安，那又有什么意义呢？

2015年高考英语湖北卷 听力 原文

四级If you have a sign in your yard declaring what setup you use, that'd point them in the right direction, though at that point, we're talking about a highly targeted, semi-sophisticated attack, and not the sort of forced-entry attack that makes up the majority of burglaries.

如果你的院子里有一个指示牌，上面写着你所使用的装置，这将为他们指明正确的方向，尽管在这一点上，我们谈论的是一种高度有针对性的、半复杂的攻击，而不是构成大多数盗窃案的那种强行进入攻击。

2016年12月阅读原文

高考For football and basketball, adding talented players to a team proves a good method, but only up to the point where 70% of the players are top talent; above that level, the team's performance begins to decline.

对于足球和篮球来说，为一支球队增加有天赋的球员证明是一个好方法，但只能达到70%的球员都是顶级人才的程度；超过这个水平，团队的表现开始下降。

2019年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 七选五 原文

高考The low point of the sheet must be centered directly over, and no more than three inches above, the cup.

板材的低点必须直接位于杯的中心，且不得超过杯的上方三英寸。

2017年高考英语全国卷1 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

六级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.

液体保持在其熔点以上，直到需要蒸汽，在这一点上液体可以变回固体，释放其储存的能量。

2018年12月六级真题（第二套）听力 Section C

考研We have no land ethic yet, but we have at least drawn nearer the point of admitting that birds should continue as a matter of intrinsic right,regardless of the presence or absence of economic advantage to us.

我们还没有土地伦理，但我们至少已经接近承认鸟类应该作为一种固有权利继续存在的程度，不管我们是否拥有经济优势。

2010年考研翻译原文

考研Driving her point home, she continued: “It’s increasingly apparent that the absence of purpose, of a moral language within government, media or business could become one of the most dangerous foals for capitalism and freedom“.

她继续强调自己的观点：“越来越明显的是，政府、媒体或企业缺乏目标和道德语言，可能会成为资本主义和自由最危险的因素之一。”。

2015年考研阅读原文

六级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.

由于社会或学术义务，地方合作有时会持续到有用的程度，而国际合作则可以更自由地培养和放弃。

2019年6月六级真题（第二套）听力 Section C

六级More to the point, he had yet to settle on a subject for the personal essay accompanying the application.

更重要的是，他还没有确定申请书附带的个人论文的主题。

2013年12月阅读原文

六级For example, in research with 3920 college students, Doctor Snyder and his colleagues found that the level of hope among freshmen at the beginning of their first semester was a more accurate predictor of their college grades, than were their SAT scores or their grade point averages in high school, the two measures most commonly used to predict college performance.

例如，在对3920名大学生的研究中，斯奈德博士和他的同事发现，新生在第一学期开始时的希望程度比他们的SAT分数或高中平均分数更能准确预测他们的大学成绩，这两个指标最常用于预测大学表现。

2010年12月听力原文

四级Graduation requirements specify the number of credits you must earn, the minimum grade point average you must achieve and the distribution of credits you must have from among different departments or fields of study.

毕业要求规定了你必须获得的学分数量，你必须达到的最低平均成绩点，以及你必须从不同部门或学习领域获得的学分分布。

2016年6月四级真题（第二套）听力 Section C

考研This is hacking on an industrial scale ,as was acknowledged by Glenn Mulcaire, the man hired by the News of the World in 2001 to be the point person for phone hacking.

正如格伦·穆尔凯尔（Glenn Mulcaire）所承认的那样，这是一种工业规模的黑客行为。格伦·穆尔凯尔于2001年被《世界新闻报》（News of the World）聘请为电话黑客的关键人物。

2015年考研阅读原文

高考Documenting the Thangmi language and culture is just a starting point for Turin, who seeks to include other languages and oral traditions across the himalayan reaches of India, Nepal, Bhutan, and China.

记录坦格米语和文化只是都灵的一个起点，都灵试图将印度、尼泊尔、不丹和中国的喜马拉雅山脉地区的其他语言和口头传统包括在内。

2014年高考英语全国卷1 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

高考From that point Shackleton wanted to force a passage by dog sled across the continent.

从那时起，沙克尔顿想强迫狗拉雪橇穿越欧洲大陆。

2016年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

考研In his book The Tipping Point,Malcolm Aladuell argues that social epidemics are driven in large part by the acting of a tiny minority of special individuals,often called influentials,who are unusually informed,persuasive,or well-connected.

马尔科姆·阿拉杜尔（Malcolm Aladuell）在其著作《引爆点》（The Tipping Point）中指出，社会流行病在很大程度上是由极少数特殊个体（通常被称为影响者）的行为所驱动的，这些人具有不同寻常的信息、说服力或良好的人际关系。

2010年考研阅读原文

高考One can never be sure that it is not on the point of breaking out into action only sure that it will do so sometime.

人们永远无法确定它是否即将采取行动，只能确定它会在某个时候采取行动。

2015年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

高考Children typically change rules to find a point where their game is similar to the actual sport but still allows for play at their level.

孩子们通常会改变规则，以找到一个点，他们的游戏是类似于实际的运动，但仍然允许发挥自己的水平。

2015年高考英语上海卷 阅读理解 阅读表达 原文

四级Kodak's decision to file for bankruptcy（破产）protection is a sad, though not unexpected, turning point for a leading American corporation that pioneered consumer photography and dominated the film market for decades, but ultimately failed to adapt to the digital revolution.

柯达申请破产的决定(破产）对于一家领先的美国公司来说，保护是一个悲伤但并非意外的转折点。这家公司开创了消费摄影并主宰了电影市场几十年，但最终未能适应数字革命。

2013年6月阅读原文

四级The study included healthy, educated adults who took standard tests of memory, reasoning and perception at the outset and at some point over the next seven years.

这项研究包括受过教育的健康成年人，他们在开始时以及在未来七年的某个时候参加了标准的记忆、推理和感知测试。

2016年6月阅读原文

四级We are at a point where in much of the developed world the vast majority of young people grew up playing video games, and an increasingly high percentage of adults play these video games too, Werbach says.

Werbach说：“在发达国家的大部分地区，绝大多数年轻人都是玩电子游戏长大的，成年人玩电子游戏的比例也越来越高。”。

2016年12月阅读原文

六级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.

先进的电池正从专业市场转移到主流市场，预示着电动汽车和屋顶太阳能电池板等前瞻性技术的转折点。

2016年12月阅读原文

四级What could have been considered the beginning of a descent is now a potential turning point—the turning point you are most equipped to take full advantage of.

可以被认为是下降开始的现在是一个潜在的转折点——你最有能力充分利用的转折点。

2017年6月阅读原文

高考If a basketball star is, for example, trying to gain a high personal point total, he may take a shot himself when it would be better to pass the ball to a teammate, affecting the team's performance.

例如，如果一名篮球明星试图获得较高的个人总分，他可能会在最好将球传给队友时自己投篮，从而影响球队的表现。

2019年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 七选五 原文

六级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.

正如报告作者所指出的，即使是未遂事件也可能导致“建立一个繁重的监管框架，并影响科学立方体卫星的未来配置”。

2019年6月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B

四级After a point, countries can become so dangerous that food relief workers are no longer safe and their programs are halted.

一段时间后，各国可能变得如此危险，以至于食品救援人员不再安全，他们的计划也停止了。

2016年6月阅读原文

四级Again, the point is to listen hard while keeping the pen moving.

再说一次，关键是要在保持笔移动的同时认真倾听。

2018年12月四级真题（第一套）听力 Section B

高考This is how much temperatures have risen since the industrial age began, putting US 40% of the way to the 2℃ point.

这是自工业时代开始以来气温上升的幅度，使我们的气温上升了40%，达到2℃。

2016年高考英语上海卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

考研It is difficult to the point of impossibility for the average reader under the age of forty to imagine a time when high-quality arts criticism could be found in most big-city newspapers.

对于四十岁以下的普通读者来说，很难想象在大多数大城市的报纸上都能找到高质量的艺术评论。

2010年考研阅读原文

六级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.

有些人太服从别人的意见，太专注于决策共识，对自己的观点太沉默，在没有时间和精力的情况下太容易接受事情。

2019年12月六级真题（第一套）听力 Section C

六级Agreement on an international carbon-price floor would be a good starting point in that process.

就国际碳价格下限达成协议将是这一进程的良好起点。

2017年6月阅读原文

四级He'll need to be jamming you at this point, as a broken window or opened door would normally release the alarm.

他需要在这一点上干扰你，因为打破窗户或打开门通常会释放警报。

2016年12月阅读原文

高考At some point in all of our lives, we'll have our trust tested or violated.

在我们一生中的某个时刻，我们的信任会受到考验或侵犯。

2015年高考英语全国卷1 阅读理解 七选五 原文

高考At this point, when all the children were willing to share their experiences, I began to learn how to teach.

在这一点上，当所有的孩子都愿意分享他们的经验时，我开始学习如何教学。

2015年高考英语湖南卷 完形填空 原文

高考Half of all college students change their major at some point.

一半的大学生在某个时候换了专业。

2015年高考英语湖南卷 阅读表达 原文

四级At some point, almost all of us will experience a period of radical professional change.

在某个时刻，我们几乎所有人都将经历一段彻底的职业变革时期。

2017年6月阅读原文

四级Although Leslie perhaps paints a bit broadly in contending that most of us are unaware of how much we don't know, he's surely right to point out that the problem is growing: Google can give us the powerful illusion that all questions have definite answers

虽然莱斯利可能在争辩我们大多数人不知道我们有多少不知道时有点笼统，但他确实正确地指出问题正在扩大：谷歌可以给我们一个强大的错觉，即所有问题都有明确的答案

2017年12月四级真题（第二套）阅读 Section B

六级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.

最近的一项研究试图计算人类经济生态过度的程度，发现我们正在使用价值1.2地球的环境商品和服务，这意味着在某个时候债务将被收回，所有这些服务——地球为我们免费提供的服务——都将嘎然而止。

2016年6月阅读原文

六级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.

尽管有64%的美国高中毕业生在人生的某个阶段上过大学，但只有30%的可比德国人口、28%的法国人、20%的英国人和37%的日本人高中毕业。

2015年12月听力原文

考研But the headlong push into bachelor's degrees for all—and the subtle devaluing of anything less—misses an important point: That's not the only thing the American economy needs.

但是，一头扎进所有人的学士学位，再加上对其他学位的微妙贬值，忽略了一个重要的问题：这不是美国经济所需要的唯一东西。

2018年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

六级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.

这类再生放牧的拥护者还指出了其对动物福利、气候和健康的好处：草食动物在隔离环境下活得更长。

2019年12月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B

考研Davidson's article is one of a number of pieces that have recently appeared making the point that the reason we have such stubbornly high unemployment and declining middle-class incomes today is largely because of the big drop in demand because of the Gre

戴维森的文章是最近出现的一系列文章之一，这些文章指出，我们今天失业率居高不下，中产阶级收入下降，主要是因为Gre导致的需求大幅下降

2013年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

高考Papa would listen carefully and was ready with some comment, always to the point.

爸爸会仔细倾听，随时准备发表一些评论，总是切中要害。

2015年高考英语福建卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

六级So we make a point of never publicizing of the amount of money we make.

因此，我们从不公开我们的收入。

2016年12月六级真题（第一套）听力 Section A

考研If it clears the House, this measure would still have to get through the Senate where someone is bound to point out that it amounts to the bare, bare minimum necessary to keep the Postal Service afloat, not comprehensive reform.

如果这项措施在众议院获得通过，那么它仍必须在参议院获得通过，在参议院一定会有人指出，这是维持邮政服务正常运行所必需的最低限度，而不是全面改革。

2018年考研阅读原文

四级Instead of giving people practice, the gradual reduction likely gave them cravings ( ' , 瘾) and withdrawal symptoms before they even reached quit day, which could be why fewer people in that group actually made it to that point.

而不是让人们练习，逐渐减少可能会给他们带来渴望（'，瘾) 甚至在戒烟日之前就出现了戒断症状，这可能就是为什么这组人中很少有人真正做到这一点的原因。

2017年6月阅读原文

六级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.

伦敦是大游客的经常出发点，巴黎是必经目的地；许多人去了荷兰，一些人去了瑞士和德国，很少有冒险家去了西班牙、希腊或土耳其。

2017年6月阅读原文

四级But is there a point where it reaches capacity?The answer is no, because brains are more sophisticated than that.

但它是否达到了容量？答案是否定的，因为大脑比这更复杂。

2017年6月阅读原文

六级A century's worth of calculated name changes point to the fact that naming any group is a politically freighted exercise.

一个世纪以来，经过计算的名称变化表明，命名任何团体都是一项政治任务。

2015年12月阅读原文

六级A century's worth of calculated name changes point to the fact that naming any group is a politically freighted exercise .

一个世纪以来，经过计算的名称变化表明，命名任何团体都是一项政治任务。

2015年12月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section C

六级But was there any point in the video that you thought was particularly interesting?

但是你觉得视频中有什么特别有趣的地方吗？

2016年12月六级真题（第二套）听力 Section A

考研At any given point, I should have deep work scheduled for roughly the next month.

在任何时候，我都应该在大约下个月安排深入的工作。

2018年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

六级Anyway, from that point on, I was scared.

不管怎样，从那时起，我就害怕了。

2017年12月六级真题（第二套）听力 Section A

六级Its big selling point is that nobody else will have it: You won't see this kitchen anywhere else in the world.

它的最大卖点是没有其他人会拥有它：你在世界其他任何地方都看不到这个厨房。

2016年6月阅读原文

四级But functioning fireplaces remain to this day a powerful selling point in a house or apartment.

但功能强大的壁炉至今仍是房屋或公寓的一个强大卖点。

2014年6月阅读原文

六级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.

除此之外，苹果和其他科技公司（包括谷歌、Facebook、Twitter和微软）以不同的方式将反对政府的声明视为企业的骄傲。

2017年12月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B

高考Over the years, there have been a number of different techniques to help designers approach this important point.

多年来，有许多不同的技术帮助设计师接近这一重要点。

2018年高考英语全国卷I 阅读理解 七选五 原文

四级For example, a Colombian who wants someone to approach him often signals with a hand movement in which all the fingers of one hand, cupped, point downward as they move rapidly back and forth.

例如，一个哥伦比亚人想要有人接近他，通常会用手的动作发出信号，其中一只手的所有手指在快速来回移动时都指向下方。

2014年6月听力原文

高考This is usually interpreted as a sign that today's parents are trying to manage their children's lives past the point where this behavior is appropriate.

这通常被解释为一种迹象，表明今天的父母正试图管理他们孩子的生活，而不是采取这种行为。

2015年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

六级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.

这一次，Twenge和她的团队强调说，他们并没有试图确定原因本身，而是在评估潜在原因的合理性。

2019年12月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

六级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.

消费者最终也会被提及，尤其是多萝西·肖弗（Dorothy Shaver）这样的人，他们可以指出洛德·泰勒（Lord&Taylor）的销售数据。

2017年6月阅读原文

高考At one point, huge piles of snow blocked his way.

有一次，巨大的积雪挡住了他的去路。

2016年高考英语北京卷 完形填空 原文

四级If you have a sign in your yard declaring what setup you use, that'd point them in the right direction, though at that point, we're talking about a highly targeted, semi-sophisticated attack, and not the sort of forced-entry attack that makes up the major

如果你的院子里有一块牌子，上面写着你使用的是什么装置，这会把他们引向正确的方向，尽管在这一点上，我们谈论的是一种高度有针对性的、半复杂的攻击，而不是构成主要目标的那种强行进入攻击

2016年12月四级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

六级Brown and the Stockholm declaration were both attempting to point out.

布朗和斯德哥尔摩宣言都试图指出这一点。

2016年6月阅读原文

高考I then made it a point to attend those meetings and learn all I could.

然后我特意参加了这些会议，尽我所能地学习。

2017年高考英语全国卷1 完形填空 原文

六级He positioned the table so that he could move close to the audience that's the strategic point in the speech.

他把桌子放好，这样他就可以靠近听众——这是演讲的战略要点。

2013年12月听力原文

四级The author's mother taught him a valuable lesson by pointing out lots of flaws in his seemingly perfect essay.

作者的母亲给他上了宝贵的一课，指出了他那篇看似完美的文章中的许多缺陷。

2015年12月阅读原文

高考From the governments' point of view, a primary goal of laws requiring extended producer responsibility is to transfer both the cost and the physical responsibility of waste management from the government and tax-payers back to the producers.

从政府的角度来看，要求扩大生产者责任的法律的主要目标是将废物管理的成本和实际责任从政府和纳税人转移回生产者。

2015年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

六级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.

在美国，研究表明，道路大小翻倍只会使交通量翻倍，让我们回到起点。

2019年12月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section A

考研If it clears the House, this measure would still have to get through the Senate-where someone is bound to point out that it amounts to the bare, bare minimum necessary to keep the Postal Service afloat, not comprehensive reform.

如果这项措施在众议院获得通过，那么它仍必须在参议院获得通过，在参议院一定会有人指出，这是维持邮政服务正常运行所必需的最低限度，而不是全面改革。

2018年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

六级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.

不幸的是，科学新闻也可能过分简化和概括其主题材料，以至于所传达的基本信息模糊不清，或者在最坏的情况下，显然是错误的。

2018年12月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section C

四级We’re obligated to deliver to that point on a daily basis.

我们每天都有义务做到这一点。

2019年12月四级真题（第二套）阅读 Section B

四级It is likely to be a critical turning point in one's life.

这可能是一个人一生中的一个关键转折点。

2017年6月阅读原文

高考Prevention is key, scientists says because once ecosystems pass their tipping point, it is remarkably difficult for them to return.

科学家说，预防是关键，因为一旦生态系统超过临界点，它们就很难恢复。

2019年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

六级Perhaps a lot of them don't realize how well we're doing, because we don't make a point of publicizing.

也许他们中的很多人没有意识到我们做得有多好，因为我们不重视宣传。

2016年12月六级真题（第一套）听力 Section A

考研The point of a style upgrade isn’t to become more vain or to spend more time passing over what to wear.

时尚升级的目的不是变得更加虚荣，也不是花更多的时间来考虑该穿什么。

2016年考研阅读原文

考研The point of a style upgrade isn't to become more vain or to spend more time fussing over what to wear.

时尚升级的目的不是变得更加虚荣，也不是花更多的时间在穿着上大惊小怪。

2016年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

四级Instead of giving people practice, the gradual reduction likely gave them cravings 瘾 and withdrawal symptoms before they even reached quit day, which could be why fewer people in that group actually made it to that point.

这种逐渐减少可能会让人们产生渴望，而不是让人们练习瘾 甚至在戒烟日之前就出现了戒断症状，这可能就是为什么这组人中很少有人真正做到这一点的原因。

2017年6月四级真题（第三套）阅读 Section C

考研DNT does not seem an obviously huge selling point for windows 8-though the firm has compared some of its other products favourably with Google's on that count before.

对于Windows8来说，DNT似乎不是一个明显的巨大卖点——尽管该公司之前已经将其一些其他产品与谷歌的产品进行了比较。

2013年考研阅读原文

六级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,

最近的一项研究试图计算这种“人类经济生态超调”的程度，发现我们正在使用价值1.2地球的环境商品和服务，这意味着在某个时候债务将被收回，

2016年6月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B

考研Young and old converge on one key point: Overwhelming majorities of both groups said they believe it is harder for young people today to get started in life than it was for earlier generations.

年轻人和老年人都集中在一个关键点上：这两个群体中的绝大多数人表示，他们认为今天的年轻人比前几代人更难开始新的生活。

2016年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

考研But had Entergy kept its word, that debate would be beside the point.

但如果Entergy信守诺言，那么这场辩论就无关紧要了。

2012年考研阅读原文

高考But now, with the combination of a better price point and a generally fresher product, they can stay in business.

但现在，有了更好的价位和更新鲜的产品，他们可以继续经营下去。

2018年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

高考Beyond a certain point, though, further stress will only lead to exhaustion, illness and finally a breakdown.

然而，超过某一点，进一步的压力只会导致精疲力竭、疾病，最终崩溃。

2016年高考英语上海卷 语法填空 B 原文

四级Rather, the point is to use the results of this study to open up meaningful dialogues on implicit gender bias, be it at a departmental level or an institutional level or even a discipline level.

相反，重点是利用这项研究的结果，就隐性性别偏见展开有意义的对话，无论是在部门层面、机构层面，甚至是学科层面。

2017年12月四级真题（第二套）阅读 Section C

四级Great leaders recognize the weak signals or slight signs that point to big changes to come.

伟大的领袖们意识到微弱的信号或轻微的迹象表明巨大的变化即将到来。

2017年6月阅读原文

四级Excessively skinny models have been a point of controversy for decades, and two researchers say a model's body mass should be a workplace health and safety issue.

几十年来，过度瘦削的模特一直是争议的焦点，两位研究人员表示，模特的体重应该是工作场所的健康和安全问题。

2016年12月阅读原文

考研As Hagel notes, Brynjolfsson and McAfee indeed touched on this point in their book.

正如哈格尔所指出的，布林约夫森和麦卡菲在他们的书中确实提到了这一点。

2014年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

考研In his book The tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell argues that "social epidemics" are driven in large part by the actions of a tiny minority of special individuals, often called influentials, who are unusually informed, persuasive, or well-connected.

马尔科姆·格拉德威尔（Malcolm Gladwell）在其著作《引爆点》（The tipping Point）中指出，“社会流行病”在很大程度上是由极少数特殊个体（通常被称为影响者）的行为所驱动的，这些人信息灵通、有说服力或关系密切。

2010年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

六级With money and careful planning, we can boost efficiency up to a point.

有了资金和周密的计划，我们可以在一定程度上提高效率。

2015年12月听力原文

考研One of these urges had to do with creating a state of peace in the midst of turbulence, a “still point of the turning world,” to borrow a phrase from T.

其中一个要求是在动荡中创造和平状态，借用T。

2013年考研翻译原文

六级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.

我想从财务和人事的角度来看待这些问题，并提供一些希望有效的解决方案。

2016年12月听力原文

四级The combined effects of those trends and the political tensions they generate point to the breakdown of governments and societies.

这些趋势的综合影响及其产生的政治紧张局势表明政府和社会已经崩溃。

2016年6月阅读原文

四级There is no point saying you run marathons, if you are going to be out of breath arriving at the interview on the second floor.

如果你在二楼面试时会上气不接下气，那么说你跑马拉松是没有意义的。

2016年6月四级真题（第一套）听力 Section C

四级My notes may or may not be useful, but the point is that by writing down what Mr.Brown says, I can follow his line of thinking more easily.

我的笔记可能有用，也可能没用，但关键是写下布朗先生说的话，我可以更容易地遵循他的思路。

2018年12月四级真题（第一套）听力 Section B

考研When you meet a person for the first time, make an effort to find the things which you and that person have in common so that you can build the conversation from that point.

当你第一次见到一个人时，努力找出你和那个人的共同点，这样你就可以从这一点开始建立对话。

2018年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

四级Instead, topping the list of reasons, about four-in-ten Americans point to a double standard for women seeking to climb to the highest levels of either politics or business, where they have to do more than their male counterparts to prove themselves.

相反，最重要的原因是，大约十分之四的美国人指出，女性在寻求晋升到政治或商业的最高层次时，会采取双重标准，她们必须比男性同行做更多的事情来证明自己。

2019年6月四级真题（第二套）阅读 Section C

四级But is there a point where it reaches capacity?

但是否有达到容量的点？

2017年6月四级真题（第二套）阅读 Section C

考研A pair of bills sponsored by Massachusetts state Senator Jason Lewis and House Speaker Pro Tempore Patricia Haddad, to ensure "gender parity" on boards and commissions, provide a case in point.

马萨诸塞州参议员杰森·刘易斯（Jason Lewis）和众议院临时议长帕特里夏·哈达德（Patricia Haddad）为确保董事会和委员会的“性别平等”而提出的两项法案就是一个很好的例子。

2020年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

高考Up to a certain point, the more stress you are under, the better your performance will be.

在一定程度上，你承受的压力越大，你的表现就越好。

2016年高考英语上海卷 语法填空 B 原文