A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
点
Point
What's the point of re-releasing an album? The original sounded good, why change something about it?
重新发行一张专辑有什么意义?原版听起来不错，为什么要改呢?
People work really hard to get to a certain point. But they have to work just as hard to stay there.
人们为了达到某个目标而努力工作。但他们必须同样努力工作才能留在那里。
There is no way to penetrate the surface of life but by attacking it earnestly at a particular point.
没有办法穿透生命的表面，只有在某一点上认真地攻击它。
I'm not writing just about melancholy stuff anymore, I made a point to cover a wide range of emotions.
我不再只写忧郁的东西，我强调要涵盖广泛的情感。
I guess I hit a point while I was in college when I realized I would have to do something with my life!
我想当我在大学的时候，我意识到我必须为我的生活做点什么。
I dropped to the lowest point when I allowed my children to go down that ramp into the water without me.
当我允许我的孩子们在没有我的情况下沿着斜坡下水时，我跌到了最低点。
I am methodical to the point of being obsessive-compulsive. And I have always been good at multi-tasking.
我做事有条不紊，几乎到了强迫症的程度。我一直擅长同时处理多项任务。
If you can't even acknowledge that you have to fix Social Security, that's not a very good starting point.
如果你甚至不能承认你必须解决社会保障问题，这不是一个很好的起点。
At a certain point my novels set. They set just as hard as that jam jar. And then I know they are finished.
在某种程度上，我的小说就像果酱罐一样硬。然后我就知道一切都结束了。
My point of view is that when I am playing cricket I cannot think that this game is less or more important.
我的观点是，当我打板球时，我不能认为这项运动是少或多重要。
Here's the point to be made - there are no synonyms. There are no two words that mean exactly the same thing.
这里要说明的一点是——没有同义词。没有两个词的意思完全相同。
And part of that is, what is the point of having children if you don't have the privilege of bringing them up?
部分原因是，如果你没有抚养孩子的特权，生孩子还有什么意义呢?
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
There's a point you get to on the stage where you're not remembering lines but living them, and you reach this pure moment which, really, is more intense than what you can achieve in life.
当你站在舞台上的时候，你不是在记台词，而是在实践台词，你到达了一个纯粹的时刻，这一刻比你在生活中所能达到的更强烈。
A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
一个有天赋的人看到了本质，把其余的都当成多余。
But you can't extend, or go beyond any point musically, without the basic fundamentals.
但是，如果没有基本的音乐基础，你就无法在音乐上扩展或超越任何一点。
The world's creation has a beginning from the world's point of view, not from God's.
世界的创造是从世界的观点出发的，而不是从上帝的观点出发的。
There's no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site.
如果你打算在网站上做个标记，那就没有必要埋斧头。
There was a point in time when I was in dire need of changing the way the model agency was working.
有一段时间，我迫切需要改变模特经纪公司的运作方式。