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point

英 [pɒɪnt] 美[pɔɪnt]
  • n. 要点;得分;标点;[机] 尖端
  • vt. 指向;弄尖;加标点于
  • vi. 表明;指向
  • n. (Point)人名;(法)普安

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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.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

Up until that point, Leah had followed traditional measures of success.

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

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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.

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However, as Amy Edmondson of Harvard points out, organisations increasingly use team as a verb rather than a noun: they form teams for specific purposes and then quickly disband them.

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

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

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

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

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.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

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

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

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

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

However, he points out that many countries have not done so.

出自-2016年6月听力原文

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.

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

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.

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

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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.

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The point is not to excuse or forget the crime.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

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

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

Perhaps the point of writing the flawless essay was not to give up, but to never willingly finish.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

Do your contacts share your point of view on most subjects? If yes, it's time to shake things up.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

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

出自-2014年6月阅读原文

students can switch to different discussions at any point

出自-2013年6月阅读原文

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

出自-2013年6月阅读原文

I say you only live once and we work hard and what's the point if you can't go on holiday.

出自-2011年12月阅读原文

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.

出自-2011年6月阅读原文

You are pointing out the errors he has committed.

出自-2010年6月阅读原文

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.

出自-2014年6月听力原文

Roberts cleverly pointed out that when you are first learning something, you are better off working alone than practicing with other people

出自-2012年12月听力原文

Then you'll have to include that in your point.

出自-2011年6月听力原文

Part of your point you knew before hand but part you discovered as you wrote

出自-2011年6月听力原文

He can't find good examples to illustrate his point.

出自-2011年6月听力原文

The writer's point of view often changes

出自-2011年6月听力原文

No matter what the content of the message, its real point is, "I want you to know that I care about you.

出自-2010年12月听力原文

Be business-like and stick to the point.

出自-2010年6月听力原文

"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.

2016年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B

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

2018年12月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section B

Although economic research and previous survey findings have shown that career interruptions related to motherhood may make it harder for women to advance in their careers and compete for top executive jobs, relatively few adults in the recent survey poin

2019年6月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C

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

2017年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

But is there a point where it reaches capacity?

2017年6月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C

But the point is the man was clocked-in at eight o'clock.

2016年12月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section B

Crews had the fire under control in about 45 minutes and managed to contain the fire to its point of origin.

2018年12月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section A

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.

2016年6月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section C

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

2016年12月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B

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.

2017年6月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C

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.

2019年6月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C

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.

2018年12月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section B

Perhaps the point of writing the flawless essay was not to give up, but to never willingly finish.

2015年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

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.

2017年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C

That means that everyone will, at some point in their life, have to make a number of major reinvestments in their skills.

2019年6月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B

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.

2016年6月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section C

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

2019年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

These likely persistent forces, like the growth of shale ( ' , 页岩) oil, point to a low for long scenario.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

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.

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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.

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

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

They point to the growing curiosity of TV viewers.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

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.

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

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

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

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These factors have converged to create an increasingly impossible situation with many employees overworking to the point of burnout.

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

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.

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

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.

出自-2016年12月听力原文

So what factors, at the community level, do predict if poor children will move up the economic ladder as adults? What explains, for instance, why the Salt Lake City metro area is one of the 100 largest metropolitan areas most likely to lift the fortunes of the poor and the Atlanta metro area is one of the least likely?Harvard economist Raj Chetty has pointed to economic and racial segregation, community density, the size of a community's middle class, the quality of schools, community religiosity, and family structure, which he calls the single strongest correlate of upward mobility.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

As lighting expert Howard Brandston points out, Generally, there are no bad light sources, only bad applications.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

As Vaclav Smil points out.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

All of those specialized bulbs led to the building of specialized light fixtures, from the desk lamp you study by, to the ugly but beloved hand-painted Chinese lamp you inherited from your grandmother, to the ceiling fixture in your closet, to the light in your oven or refrigerator, and to the light that the dentist points at you.

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

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

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

出自-2015年12月听力原文

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.

出自-2015年12月听力原文

"A comparison point is in the 1990s battles over encryption," said Kurt Opsahl, general counsel of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a privacy watchdog group.

2017年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B

A bystander named John Roulstone wrote a poem about the event, then, at some point, Hale herself seems to have helped write it.

2018年6月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section A

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

2015年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C

Anyway, from that point on, I was scared.

2017年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section A

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.

2019年6月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B

But a recent study seems to point to the fact that when matter and anti-matter were first created, there were slightly more particles of matter, which allowed the universe we all live in to form?

2018年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section A

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

2016年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section A

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.

2019年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B

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.

2019年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section A

It looks like it一after all, 2012 was the tipping point when more than half of Americans began owning smartphones.

2019年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B

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.

2017年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C

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.

2017年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B

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,

2016年6月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B

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

2016年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section A

Researchers also point to the time sink that is involved in preparing data for others to view.

2017年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

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

2016年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section A

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.

2019年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C

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.

2017年6月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C

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.

2018年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C

The year when most Americans began using smartphones was identified as a turning point in young Americans’ level of happiness.

2019年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B

These factors have converged to create an increasingly impossible situation with many employees overworking to the point of burnout.

2016年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B

These likely persistent forces, like the growth of shale oil, point to a "low for long" scenario.

2017年6月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B

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.

2019年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B

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.

2018年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C

Usually a farmer will get to the point where financially, what they're doing is not working.

2019年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B

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.

2019年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C

A line graph looks similar to a bar graph, but instead of bars, it plots points and connects them with a line.

2015年高考英语浙江卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

And if you have your lecture notes or the article in hand, you and the professor will be able to examine specific points that are confusing to you, rather than just talking in a general way about the contents.

2015年高考英语浙江卷 阅读理解 主旨概括 原文

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

2015年高考英语湖北卷 听力 原文

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

2016年高考英语北京卷 完形填空 原文

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

2015年高考英语全国卷1 阅读理解 七选五 原文

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

2015年高考英语湖南卷 完形填空 原文

Athens reached the point when the freedom she really wanted was freedom from responsibility.

2015年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

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

2016年高考英语上海卷 语法填空 B 原文

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

2018年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

Captions usually summarize the author's main point as well.

2015年高考英语浙江卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

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.

2015年高考英语上海卷 阅读理解 阅读表达 原文

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.

2014年高考英语全国卷1 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

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.

2019年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 七选五 原文

Friedman points out that the green economy is a chance to keep American strength.

2018年高考英语浙江卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

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

2016年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

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.

2015年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

From the teacher's point of view, children should be left to decide what to read and how to read.

2015年高考英语浙江卷 阅读理解 阅读A 题设

Getting to the top was definitely the high point.

2015年高考英语上海卷 听力 原文

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

2015年高考英语湖南卷 阅读表达 原文

Here are some important points that you may find helpful.

2016年高考英语浙江卷(10月) 阅读理解 七选五 原文

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

2017年高考英语全国卷1 完形填空 原文

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.

2019年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 七选五 原文

If you don't do this, I will take away points from your grade.

2017年高考英语全国卷2 听力 原文

In order not to be heard, she pointed her finger upwards to signal that someone was moving about upstairs.

2015年高考英语湖北卷 单项选择 原文

Instead of introducing scientific theories, he tells a story, within which he tries to make his points, perhaps in order to keep the reader's attention.

2015年高考英语湖北卷 阅读理解 阅读E 原文

It does point out that many parents still limit electronic reading, mainly due to concerns about increased screen time.

2018年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

It was a cold March day in high point, north Carolina.

2017年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

Make a point, and make it safe for others to do the same.

2019年高考英语全国卷3 阅读理解 七选五 原文

Many of the participants pointed to very specific elements in the play that they felt to be related.

2015年高考英语上海卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

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.

2015年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

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

2018年高考英语全国卷I 阅读理解 七选五 原文

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

2015年高考英语福建卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

Points were awarded for part-time jobs, housework, effort in school, and ability to deal with problems.

2016年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

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

2019年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

The intelligent transport team at newcastle university have turned an electric car into a mobile laboratory named "drivelab" in order to understand the challenges faced by older drivers and to discover where the key stress points are.

2017年高考英语全国卷3 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

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

2017年高考英语全国卷1 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

The story came to its turning point when Joe fell ill in 2007.

2015年高考英语浙江卷 阅读理解 阅读D 题设

Their victory in America was still remembered as a major turning point in the history of Rock and Roll.

2019年高考英语浙江卷 阅读理解 七选五 原文

Then I got to the point where I was staying up really late at night to get my work done.

2018年高考英语浙江卷 完形填空 原文

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

2016年高考英语上海卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

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.

2015年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

To read a line graph, it's important to focus on the points of intersection rather than the line segments between the points.

2015年高考英语浙江卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

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

2016年高考英语上海卷 语法填空 B 原文

What the people wanted was a government which would provide a comfortable life for them; and with this as the primary object, ideas of freedom and self-reliance and responsibility were neglected to the point of disappearing.

2015年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

Wilson first worked as a driver through a student-support programme of the non-profit organization, on point for college.

2019年高考英语北京卷 完形填空 原文

You must keep these points in mind while setting your goals.

2019年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 七选五 原文

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.

出自-2010年考研翻译原文

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.

出自-2010年考研阅读原文

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.

出自-2010年考研阅读原文

You can, Mr.Menand points out, become a lawyer in three years and a medical doctor in four.

出自-2011年考研阅读原文

Devoted concertgoers who reply that recordings are no substitute for live performance are missing the point.

出自-2011年考研阅读原文

Objective knowledge is the goal, not the starting point.

出自-2012年考研阅读原文

Mark Baldassare of the Public Policy Institute of California points out that much of the state’s budget is patrolled by unions.

出自-2012年考研阅读原文

John Donahue at Harvard’s Kennedy School points out that the norms of culture in Western civil services suit those who want to stay put but is bad for high achievers.

出自-2012年考研阅读原文

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

出自-2012年考研阅读原文

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.

出自-2013年考研翻译原文

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.

出自-2013年考研阅读原文

They often include a certain amount of digging to test for buried materials at selected points across a landscape.

出自-2014年考研阅读原文

As Nature has pointed out before, there are some legitimate concerns about how science prizes—both new and old—are distributed.

出自-2014年考研阅读原文

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.

出自-2015年考研阅读原文

Ideally, different kinds of reading inform each other, and act as useful reference points for and counterbalances to one another.

出自-2015年考研阅读原文

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“.

出自-2015年考研阅读原文

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

出自-2016年考研阅读原文

Optimists point out that technological upheaval has benefited workers in the past.

出自-2018年考研阅读原文

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.

出自-2018年考研阅读原文

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.

2020年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

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

2014年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

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

2018年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

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.

2018年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

But this distinction misses the point that it is processing and aggregation, not the mere possession of bits, that gives the data value.

2018年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

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

2013年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Grade inflation—the gradual increase in average GPAs grade—point averages over the past few decades—is often considered a product of a consumer era in higher education, in which students are treated like customers to be pleased.

2019年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Happiness is not a point future and not a moment from the past, but a mindset that can be designed into the present.

2015年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

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.

2018年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

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.

2010年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

That might seem rather an obscure point, but it sets the tone for an exhibition that contains a lot of black-and-white photographs and relatively few natural objects.

2014年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

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

2016年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

This aversion to arguments is common, but it depends on a mistaken view of arguments that causes profound problems for our personal and social lives- and in many ways misses the point of arguing in the first place.

2020年考研真题(英语一)翻译 Section Ⅲ

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.

2015年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

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.

2018年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

While the statement is vague, it represents one starting point.

2020年考研真题(英语一)翻译 Section Ⅲ

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.

2016年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ