Yet, the feeling was like hunger, and he poised himself several times in his suspensors on the point of ordering food brought to him.
然而,这种感觉就像饥饿一样,他几次在他的吊带上保持平衡,准备点菜给他。
四季随笔
Was I not yesterday on the point of ordering a huge work of erudition, which I should certainly never have read through, and which would only have served to waste precious days?
我昨天不是正要订购一本我绝对不应该通读而且只会浪费宝贵时间的博学巨著吗?
中文百科
秩序问题
秩序问题(point of order)是一项议事进程,旨在确保议事进程受到监督,在进程错误时,提供与会者向主席纠正错误的机会。根据《罗伯特议事规则》,秩序问题毋需附议,不可以讨论、重提、修正,也毋需表决,由主席自行裁定受理与否。在位阶上,秩序问题特权优先,不需要经过主席排定发言次序就可提出。
英语百科
Point of order 秩序问题
In parliamentary procedure, a point of order is a call to attention of a violation of the rules in a meeting of a deliberative assembly.
近义、反义、联想词
近义词
n.
order, rules of order, parliamentary law, parliamentary procedure
英英词典
point of order n.
a question as to whether the current proceedings are allowed by parliamentary procedure