point of departure

基本解釋

If so, use it as a point of departure for a short story, or for tomorrow's freewriting exercise.
如果有的話，就以這一小點(diǎn)作為短篇故事的出發(fā)點(diǎn)，或者用來作為明天隨筆的練習(xí)。
Instead, each chapter uses one of the naturalist's other books as a point of departure for a meandering, but ultimately enlightening, natural-history lesson.
書中的每一章節(jié)都以達(dá)爾文另一部著作為出發(fā)點(diǎn)，對自然史加以討論：雖然篇幅可能略顯冗長，但最終卻發(fā)人深省。
A priori, insurrection is repugnant to them, in the first place, because it often results in a catastrophe, in the second place, because it always has an abstraction as its point of departure.
他們一開始就對起義有反感，第一，因為起義的結(jié)果經(jīng)常是一場災(zāi)難；第二，因為起義的出發(fā)點(diǎn)經(jīng)常是抽象的。

We started with just the seven metals and carbon plus sulfur, it was the point of departure for Democritus.
我們開始講了7種金屬,還有碳和硫磺，那就是Democritus的起點(diǎn)。
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The common vision that we used as a point of departure we have confirmed today.
WHITEHOUSE: President Obama’s Press Conference with Prime Minister Maliki The White House
Yossi Sarid, leader of the opposition Meretz Party, reached the same conclusion from the opposite point of departure.
ECONOMIST: A jubilant government, and a sad little clutch of peaceniks