查询词典 on the point of

2Be on the point of doing sth=be about to do sth.

正要做某事的时候

Be about to do sth: be on the point of doing sth.

刚要做某事，打定主意要

Be about to do sth.（＝ be on the point of doing sth.

表示"即将就要做某事"，称作"即时将来时"，但它不能和具体时间状语连用。

Be on the point of doing sth.=be about to do sth.

刚要去做蜗牛在线-学习者家园！

Briatore said that while top teams employ champion drivers, Rubens Barrichello is teetering on the point of retirement, and Button can be likened to a kind of Italian roadside concrete bollard.

布里亚托尔说，尽管顶级球队聘请冠军车手，巴里切罗是溃败的退休，和按钮可比喻为一种意大利路边具体波兰德。

That at times they were almost on the point of breaking up.

这是一个长期争论不休的问题。

When a being who is dear to us is on the point of death, we gaze upon him with a look which clings convulsively to him and which would fain hold him back.

他们两人痛苦得说不出话来，不知要向垂死的人说些什么，他们失望地颤抖着站在他眼前，马吕斯握着珂赛特的手。

It is also on the point of death that now I want to cower ..

我现在想退缩也不行了。。

I foresaw it all, a hundred times was I on the point of mentioning it to you.

我知道，封*S 和封*T 宁肯带着她们的男人退场，也决不愿和你在一起。

Good god!' cried emma, not attending to her.- 'mrs. smallridge, too! jane actually on the point of going as governess! what could he mean by such horrible indelicacy? to suffer her to engage herself - to suffer her even to think of such a measure!

上帝啊，爱玛打断了她，只管大叫道，还有个斯莫里奇太太，简果真将去做家庭教师了，他用了如此奇怪的草率的举动想干什么呢，竟然允许她去工作，还允许她想到要这么做

John Robbins lives with his family in Santa Cruz, California.

约翰罗宾和家人居住在加利福尼亚州的圣克鲁斯县。

The international background is mainly the economic ties among different nations tented to be widen and deepen at the peace and development times.

国际背景主要是和平与发展时代条件下的世界各国经济贸易联系的日益加深。