point of departure

基本解释

If so, use it as a point of departure for a short story, or for tomorrow's freewriting exercise.
如果有的話，就以這一小點作爲短篇故事的出發點，或者用來作爲明天隨筆的練習。
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.
書中的每一章節都以達爾文另一部著作爲出發點，對自然史加以討論：雖然篇幅可能略顯冗長，但最終卻發人深省。
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，因爲起義的結果經常是一場災難；第二，因爲起義的出發點經常是抽象的。

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。
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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