be off the point

基本解释

At the turning point of history, sustainable existence will be the jumping-off point to tend towards new civilization.
可持续生存构成了时代文明转向的基础，并成为迈进新文明的起点。
In the first part, this essay will be cut-off point for the Yan'an Forum on Literature, Poetry on the road to their analysis and comparison.
论文包括三大部分：第一部分，本文将以延安文艺座谈会为分界点，对他们的诗歌创作道路进行分析比较。
If you are taking a panoramic image of a landscape where everything is far away, you can be considerably off the nodal point with little ill effect.
如果您是拍摄风景的全景照片，里面的景物离我们很远，即使偏离节点程度很大，也不会有多大的负面效应。

For the end point, we would be better off measuring the ability of people to sit on the front porch and drink a mint julep.
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As ominous as this may sound, the continued litigation is slowly whittling away whatever assets Countrywide has left to the point in which the company could be sent off into bankruptcy purgatory.
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But the bar for throwing people off flights seems to be creeping lower, to the point where all it takes is mild disagreement with a flight attendant.
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