单词on the point of
prep.: 正要N；将要N
网络: 正要…的时候；正要…之际；即将…的时候
正要N;将要N
就要...的时候
正要,正想,刚要,正预备
说得坦率一些;说得难听一点
adv.about tonear toon the threshold ofconsideringset to
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。