His head had never looked so poetical as at that moment when it was on the point of falling.

他的脑袋从来没有像快要倒下的那一刻那样富有诗意。

He was so completely overcome by love and unhappiness as to be on the point of falling at her feet and crying " pity" .

他完全被爱和不幸压垮了，差点跪在她脚下，哭着“可怜”。

They ascended two stories by a large staircase with a wooden rail, whose warped stairs inclined to the side opposite the wall, and seemed on the point of falling.

他们沿着一个带木栏杆的大楼梯爬上两层楼，楼梯弯曲的楼梯向墙对面倾斜，似乎快要掉下来了。

Ten minutes passed in this way: the badly dressed man kept on writing all the time. Julien's emotion and terror were so great that he thought he was on the point of falling.

十分钟就这样过去了，衣衫褴褛的男人一直在写字。于连非常激动和恐惧，他觉得自己快要摔倒了。

I read the wearisome adventures of 'Perceforest, ' 'Tirante the White, ' 'Palmerin of England, ' and 'the Knight of the Sun, ' till the Book was on the point of falling from my hands through Ennui.

我读了《珀斯福雷斯特》、《白色蒂兰特》、《英格兰的帕尔梅林》和《太阳骑士》等令人厌倦的冒险故事，直到这本书因为倦怠而从我手中掉落。