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.
如果有的话，就以这一小点作为短篇故事的出发点，或者用来作为明天随笔的练习。
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.
书中的每一章节都以达尔文另一部著作为出发点，对自然史加以讨论：虽然篇幅可能略显冗长，但最终却发人深省。
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.
他们一开始就对起义有反感，第一，因为起义的结果经常是一场灾难；第二，因为起义的出发点经常是抽象的。

We started with just the seven metals and carbon plus sulfur, it was the point of departure for Democritus.
我们开始讲了7种金属,还有碳和硫磺，那就是Democritus的起点。
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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