on the point of

基本解釋

The dancer pivoted on the point of one foot.
舞蹈演員靠一只腳尖旋轉。
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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.
當醫(yī)護人員人員趕到時，他們發(fā)現該女孩正處在分娩點，就趕緊把她送到附近的大樓里，在那里她順利產下她的孩子。
On the point of an upright needle he laid horizontally a fine steel bar, which could turn to the right and left like the magnetic needle in a compass-box..
他在一根垂直的針頭頂點，設置了一根水平的鋼制細棍，它可以左右轉動，就像羅盤里的磁針那樣。

"This was a hugely significant attack plan. With that number of aircraft, with the types of destination that were being talked about, it is conceivable to think of upwards of 2,000 casualties in the air depending on the point of detonation whether others would have been caught on the ground as well.
Again they've just done that experiment and seen the effects of that on the point measurement with the whole pro.
通過實驗,他們便能看到其效果,通過在整個過程中,對點的測量。
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And, a lot of the derivations you will see in physics rely on this being able to model as point charges.
然后，你在物理學中看到的許多東西,都是靠以點電荷為模型得到的。
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John Bridgeman, the present director-general, is on the point of being pushed out, having upset too many ministers.
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