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单词 to the point
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to the point
l. to the point: apposite, apt, or pertinent.
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pertinentc1390
appliablec1429
relevantc1540
appliant1548
incident1557
relative1579
home1607
effectual1608
ad rem1680
adaptable1718
to the point1817
pointful1898
1817 J. Mill Hist. Brit. India III. vi. i. 34 Show, that..the evidence which you call for is evidence to the point.
1871 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues I. 107 He makes a long speech not much to the point.
1892 Law Times 92 146/2 The notes are short and to the point.
1924 A. Huxley Let. 28 Oct. (1969) 235 Those Barren Leaves..cuts more ice, I think, than the others and is more explicit and to the point.
1962 Sunday Times 1 Apr. 32/8 Dr McCabe asked Groucho for a few words. The resultant Marxism is very much to the point.
1992 D. Pannick Advocates vi. 194 Barristers have not always been prepared voluntarily to obey the essential principle of effective advocacy—keep it short and to the point.
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