He began by holding up a baseball and asking what the point of the game was.
他举起一个棒球，开始问这种游戏的意义何在？
You might ask what the point of creating fantastic milking mice is, a totally reasonable question.
你也许要问，为什么非得制造这种稀奇古怪的产奶老鼠呢？这个问题问得很有道理。
Japanese traditionally speak indirectly, leaving the listener to figure out what the point is.
日本传统上说，间接，使听者找出点什么。
The one thing Real-f fails to address is what the point of it all might be - except to suggest that you could put the “head” model (about twice the price of a mask) on top of a mannequin.
Real-f公司未能成功解决的一件事情就是佩戴这种头套的人可能目的不同，所以不建议人们佩戴，除非是套在模具头上。 （头套价格是面具价格的两倍。）
What point does the author make about non-GMO labels?
作者对非转基因标签的观点是什么？
The point of a style upgrade isn't to become more vain or to spend more time fussing over what to wear.
提升时尚品味并不意味着变得更虚荣，也不是花更多时间纠结于穿什么。
It is impossible to say at what point along the continuum a dialect becomes a separate language.
要说出同一语言的方言差异到什么程度就成为一种别的语言是不可能的。
What was the point in living in the past, thinking about what had or had not happened?
活在过去有什么意义，思考已经发生的或者没有发生的事情？
The army apparently refused point-blank to do what was required of them.
军方显然直截了当地拒绝了对他们提出的要求。
What point is there in admitting that the stories fed to the gullible public were false?
承认向轻信的公众提供的报道不实又有什么意义呢？
None of these legal provisions determine at what point adulthood has been reached but they do point to the prolonged period of adolescence.
这些法律条文没有规定什么时候已经到了成年期，但是他们确实指出了延长的青春期。
Usually, a farmer will get to the point where financially, what they're doing is not working.
通常情况下，农民会到达他们所做的事情起不了经济作用的地步。
No matter what the content of the message, its real point is, "I want you to know that I care about you."
不管信息的内容是什么，它真正的意思是，“我想让你知道，我在乎你。”
A Foundation spokesman said the idea was to point out what he called "the hypocrisy of all these awards".
基金会一位发言人说，这个想法是为了指出他所称的“所有这些奖项的虚伪”。
Of course, such growth may not persist in the long term—which is what Mr.Brown and the Stockholm Declaration were both attempting to point out.
当然，这样的增长可能不会长期持续——这是布朗先生和《斯德哥尔摩宣言》都试图指出的一点。
The point is that you should be happy with what you already have and not risk losing it by being greedy and trying to get more.
关键是你应该为你已经拥有的感到高兴，而不是冒着失去它的风险变得贪婪和试图得到更多。
My notes may or may not be useful but the point is that by writing down what Mr. Brand says I can follow his line of thinking more easily.
我的笔记可能有用，也可能没用，但重点是，通过写下布兰德先生所说的话，我可以更容易地跟上他的思路。
Whenever you start a project with someone, you have to establish a clear understanding of expectations for who owns the data, at what point they go public and who can do what with them.
一旦你和其他人开始一项研究，你必须对谁拥有数据、数据何时发表以及谁能如何处理这些数据有一个明确的预期认识。
Such growth may not persist in the long term—which is what Mr. Brown and the Stockholm Declaration were both attempting to point out.
这样的增长可能不会长期持续——这是布朗先生和《斯德哥尔摩宣言》都试图指出的一点。
What was the point of trying as she was much better than me?
既然她比我更加优秀，那么努力又有什么意义呢？
What could have been considered the beginning of a descent is now a potential turning point—the turning point you are most equipped to take full advantage of.
这曾被认为是衰落的开始，现在看来却是一个潜在的转折点——最能被充分利用的转折点。
One of them put it like this: "You know, Bob, you can just buy so much stuff, and when you get to the point where you can just buy so much stuff, now what are you going to do?"
其中一个是这样说的：“你知道吗，鲍勃，你可以买这么多东西，当你可以买这么多东西的时候，你会怎么做？”
They should describe what is true at the join point - not what should happen at those points.
注解应该描述清楚连接点上什么是符合要求的，而不是在这些点上应该发生什么。
The dilemma is how to judge at what point the costs outweigh the benefits.
现在的困境是，如何判断在什么时候的成本大于收益。
With this delay, I can precisely control at what point in the burst the photo is captured.
利用这个延时，我能够精确地控制早爆炸瞬间的那个时间点拍下照片。
If your data resides on only a few spindles, what is the point exactly of having multiple logical unit Numbers (LUNs) or physical disks?
如果您的数据仅位于几个轴，那么使用多个逻辑单元号(LUN)或者物理磁盘又有什么实际意义呢？
The irrefutable truth was that nothing-neither butter nor Mr. Chen-would dissuade the jumpers from coming: So what was the point of being here at all?
有一件事无法否认，不管是桥上涂的黄油还是老陈，都无法阻止自杀者的到来：既是如此，待在这里到底又有什么意义？
For most of us who never became concert pianists or even made it to mediocre, what was the point of learning to play the piano as a child?
对于绝大多数像我们这样，永远不可能成为钢琴家甚至是一般的演奏者的普通人来说，从小学习钢琴的目的是什么呢？
IBM believes, however, that the vast majority of mature service-oriented solutions, no matter what the entry point, will include an ESB to maximize the agility and flexibility desired from SOA.
然而IBM认为，无论其入口点是什么，绝大多数成熟的面向服务的解决方案都将包括ESB，以最大化soa中所需的敏捷性和灵活性。
Therefore, you need to add an identifier to the order -- but then at what point is the order number assigned?
因此，您需要向订单中加入标识符 ——但是在哪个点上订单号被分配呢？
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