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point-blank

/point-blangk/US // ˈpɔɪntˈblæŋk //

点到即止,一针见血地指出,一针见血,点到为止

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : aimed or fired straight at the mark especially from close range; direct.
    • : straightforward, plain, or explicit: a point-blank denial.
adv.副词 adverb
  1. 1
    • : with a direct aim; directly; straight.
    • : bluntly; frankly: She told him point-blank that he was not welcome.

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Examples

  • The citizens of Stevens Point defeated fluoridation by a healthy margin.

  • Deep, situational, and emotional jokes based on what is relevant and has a POINT!

  • To borrow an old right-wing talking point, these people are angry no matter what we do.

  • In front of this strange structure are two blank-faced, well-dressed models showing off the latest in European minimalism.

  • Therefore, it is not possible for any F-35 schedule to include a video data link  or infrared pointer at this point.

  • This is the first and principal point at which we can stanch the wastage of teaching energy that now goes on.

  • His also was the intellectual point of view, and the intellectual interest in knowledge and its deductions.

  • Judged from this point of view only, the elasticity provided by the new law is doubtless adequate.

  • That is the only point in which one sees Liszt's sense of his own greatness; otherwise his manner is remarkably unassuming.

  • When we speak against one capital vice, we ought to speak against its opposite; the middle betwixt both is the point for virtue.