on the point of

As if she was on the point of death as some rumors have suggested, the guerillas might be less intransigent.

因为，如果如传言所说，她已经到了死亡的边缘，那么反动分子也许就不会做出这一让步了。

When it began to rain, he was on the point of leaving for the railway station.

正当他要动身去火车站时，天开始下起雨来。

On the point of their divorce, she demanded on his returning to her all the lot she has brought as her marriage portion.

离婚时，她要求男方把她结婚时带过来的嫁妆全部还给她。

While the procession passed, the child was uneasy, fluttering up and down, like a bird on the point of taking flight.

当游行队伍走过时，珠儿就象一只跃跃欲飞的鸟儿一般不安地跳起又落下。

so that, by the time the captain's party was ready to sail, there were several other whaling vessels on the point of starting.

于是，到船长的捕鲸队准备停当的时候，几艘其他的捕鲸船也正要出发了。

Two of her girls had been on the point of marriage, and after all there was nothing in it.

两个女儿本来快要出嫁了，到头来只落得一场空。

"See how near I may have been to another sort of life, " he wrote of himself at 20 when he had been on the point of auditioning as an actor.

“看，我差点就过另一种生活了，”他20岁的时候写自己，彼时，他正作为一个演员去试音。

But after pumping for one whole night, they were losing the battle against the rising water and were on the point of giving up.

但是经过一整夜的抽水之后，他们没能战胜不断上升的水，他快要放弃努力了。

He was on the point of giving up when his father told him that he could go there.

他正要放弃，这时他父亲告诉他，可以去那里。

She was on the point of being guilty of a silly speech, so melted was she at heart.

她的心软得差一点说出一段湖涂话来。

This bubble is not on the point of collapse, but is likely to deflate as funds adjust to the lower returns that are likely going forward.

这一泡沫还没有到破裂的时候，但随着基金做出调整，以适应未来可能出现的较低回报率，这一泡沫可能变小。

Throughout the novel, Dickens enlarges on this theme, describing slums so decrepit that whole rows of houses are on the point of ruin.

整个小说，狄更斯扩大这个主题，描述贫民窟，使整个排破旧的房屋都在点毁掉。

A century old, it squatted on the point of an old pike that had been bolted to the outer top of the Hold's wall.

它蹲坐于要塞外墙顶端固定着的古老长矛尖上已有一个世纪之久。

The woman stared at him with the look that signifies: "Is the person who is addressing me on the point of going mad? "

女人呆望着他，那神气仿佛是在想：“和我谈话的这个人难道疯了？”

He listened to her breathing: she still breathed, but with a respiration which seemed to him weak and on the point of extinction.

他听她的呼吸，她还吐着气，但是他觉得她的气息已经弱到快要停止了。

Dream, in the dry skies, the sky in just a few drops of rain, on the point of crimson Manshan opened.

梦里，在干燥的天空下，上天仅用几滴雨，就点开了满山的绯红。

You and I are on the point of quitting the theater of our exploits.

你我正在离开我们辉煌业绩的舞台。

and Mrs. Norris thought it an excellent plan, and had it at her tongue's end, and was on the point of proposing it, when Mrs. Grant spoke.

诺里斯太太说，她认为这是个极好的计划.她本来一直想说的，刚要提出来的时候，格兰特太太先说出了。

I must let the first one get a good hold and hit him on the point of the nose or straight across the top of the head, he thought.

我必须让第一条鲨鱼好好咬住了才打它的鼻尖，或者直朝它头顶正中打去，他想。

On the point of view, this paper is divided into two parts of the body and concluding remarks.

围绕上述观点，本文主要分为正文和结束语两部分。