We were on the point of giving up.

我们当时几乎要放弃了。

Is there any more debate on the point of order?

就程序问题还有任何争议吗？

He was on the point of saying something when the phone rang.

他正要说些什么的时候，电话响了。

France is on the point of recognizing the independence of the Baltic States.

法国即将承认波罗的海各国的独立。

One can never be sure that it is not on the point of breaking out into action.

人们永远无法确定它是否即将付诸行动。

Just as he was on the point of losing himself wholly, he distinctly felt something touch him!

就在他快要完全失去知觉的时候，他清清楚楚地感到有什么东西在碰他！

I was just on the point of going when he came in.

他进来的时候我正要走。

And she sank down as though on the point of death.

她好象要死似的，瘫软下去了。

Jean Valjean was like a man on the point of fainting.

这时冉阿让象是个要昏倒的人。

They disappeared in 1998 on the point of being arrested.

1998年，就在他们即将被捕的关头，他们却消失了。

Cows appear to graze on the point of a roof of a house in Newton Abbot, Devon.

德文郡牛顿·阿博特的奶牛看上去似乎在一幢房子的屋顶上食草。

When I think of what I was on the point of doing, I consider that I am to be envied.

当我想到我刚才正是在做这件事时，我觉得自己是值得羡慕的。

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。

She was dark, small and fat, quite young, with black hair that seemed always on the point of coming down .

她又黑又矮，胖乎乎的，相当年轻，一头乌黑的头发看上去好象总是要散下来。

Because you are on the point of committing actions which undermine the respect which you say you have for your family.

因为你正在做一些败坏你家庭名声的事，而且你也认为是应该保持这个名声的。

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。

This enthusiastic impulse was on the point of becoming poignant for Jean Valjean. He gently removed Cosette's arms, and took his hat.

这种激动的感情正要使冉阿让变得非常伤心，他慢慢地离开珂赛特的手臂并且拿起他的帽子。

Standing on the point of interaction design, the paper studies the usability design of the PUI system and its theories and methods etc.

站在交互设计的角度，本文研究了笔式用户界面系统可用性设计的过程及其中运用的原理和方法等。

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。

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.

当医护人员人员赶到时，他们发现该女孩正处在分娩点，就赶紧把她送到附近的大楼里，在那里她顺利产下她的孩子。

"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。

This is a bad practice in portlet development, but has been done here to keep the example simple and focused on the point of offline techniques only.

对于 portlet 开发来说这是个下策，但这里我们采用了这个做法，以使得示例简单，且这个做法专注于脱机技术这一点。

One other former governor, Gary Johnson of New Mexico, has joined the race and a second, Jon Huntsman of Utah, is on the point of formally doing so.

前新墨西哥州州长加里??

I was on the point of giving her my address when my wife came up to us and said, "Let's go, Walter, or we'll be late" -not even a glance at the woman.

我差点就要把地址给她了，可正在这时我太太走过来对我说：“沃尔特，咱们得走了，要不就该迟到了。”她甚至瞟都没瞟那个女人。

The health services in Gaza, already depleted and fragile, are on the point of collapse if steps to support and protect them are not taken immediately.

加沙的卫生服务已所剩无几，而且非常脆弱，如果不立即采取支持和保护措施，濒将崩溃。

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..

他在一根垂直的针头顶点，设置了一根水平的钢制细棍，它可以左右转动，就像罗盘里的磁针那样。

Far from being the sedate intellectual environment characterized by library quiet, Edison's LABS were noisy, crowded places that often seemed on the point of uproar.

与庄重安静的智力活动场所不同，爱迪生的实验室与寂静无声的图书馆有天差地别，它喧闹不堪，人头涌动，似乎总是一片喧嚣。

Clark makes the point that the characteristics of a technology have a decisive influence on job skills and work organization.

克拉克指出，技术的特征对工作技能和工作组织具有决定性的影响。