point

1.关于point of view下面几点该注意：

（1）point of view普通译作“观点”，但直译作“观察的地点”解现在很少见，如He painted the hill from the point of view in his bedroom虽然不错，却不很自然。可以把the point of view in删去。

（2）point of view往往被用作“意见”解，如a carefully reasoned point of view和a biased point of view。

（3）注意from my point of view，from Mr Sheridan's point of view, from the philosophical point of view, from the point of view of philosophy等表达方式里用from。

（4）from the philosophical point of view, from the literary point of view等表达方式里的the改作a也可以。但from the point of view of philosophy等表达方式里的the不可改作a。

（5）from my point of view等表达方式不可改作from the point of my view等，point of view决不可拆开。

（6）参见standpoint 和view(-)point

2.注意下面三句里的斜体字：

• He is on the point of leaving the city.
• He is on the point of action.
• He is at（或on）the point of death.

第一句里用动名词，习惯用on。第二句里的action表示动作，习惯用on。第三句里的death表示状态，习惯用at或on。

3.There is not much point in doing that（做那个没有多大用处）等句子里的in偶尔被省去。

4.下面两句意思相同：

• I hope you will make a point of coming to see me on your return to town.
• I hope you will make it a point to come to see me on your return to town.

5.point用作“钢笔尖”解是美国英语，相当于英国的nib。

6.point用作“学分（credit）的单位”解是美国词。

7.point out有时有双宾语。例如：They pointed us out the building. (=They pointed the building out to us.)