1. 出发地点：plot out 描绘;提出...纲要 | point of departure 出发地点 | point to 意味着
2. 开航点：point number 数据标记序号 | point of departure 开航点 | point of honor 有关个人名誉之事
1. Travelers who take flights from February 29 are asked to contact their carriers in advance to find the correct point of departure.
2. Rational attitudes here mean looking at each other objectively and treating each other with fairness, with the fundamental interests of the two nations as the point of departure.
3. " Housing for the needy " is the point of departure for the reform and its end result.
4. " Uniforms are an excellent point of departure to experiment with the outsourcing of military logistics, " says Liao.
5. The river was the point of departure where friends saw off each other when embarking on a long journey.
6. Nowitzki enjoyed his finest season following the departure of Nash, his point guard and good friend.
7. Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said this month that China must make domestic demand " a basic point of departure for stimulating economic growth ".
8. Most of the spending takes place at the beginning or end of the trip, which benefits France because it is most often the point of arrival and departure.
noun
1. a beginning from which an enterprise is launched
e.g. he uses other people's ideas as a springboard for his own
reality provides the jumping-off point for his illusions
the point of departure of international comparison cannot be an institution but must be the function it carries out
Synonym: springboard jumping-off point
2. a place from which an enterprise or expedition is launched
e.g. one day when I was at a suitable jumping-off place I decided to see if I could find him
my point of departure was San Francisco
Synonym: jumping-off place