They ought to provide stable reference points that everyone – no matter what their politics – can agree on.

它们应该提供稳定的参考点，让所有人——无论他们的政治立场是什么——都能达成一致。

This is how spacetime provides a reference point for acceleration all by itself.

这就是时空本身如何为加速提供参考点的方式。

Lee’s case will be the reference point for lawyers in tomorrow’s trial.

【reference】李的判例将成为律师在明天庭审时的参考依据。

" Average" is a reference point; it is not the highest, it is not the lowest.

“平均” 是一个参考点； 它不是最高的， 也不是最低的。

12 hours. Okay? Now, it has the reference point of another action. And now, it's fine.

12小时。 好的？ 现在，它有了另一个动作的参考点。 而现在，很好。

These stakes are a reference point so the team can accurately measure erosion on each side.

Bentley：这些木桩是一个参考点，因此团队可以准确测量每一侧的侵蚀。

To buy online we had to put a reference point to pick up the order at a bakery or market close to home.

为了在网上购买，我们必须设置一个参考点，以便在离家近的面包店或市场提货。

Though the proper study of mankind may be man, that study will yield little if there is no reference point to compare man with.

虽然人类研究的主体对象是人，但是如果没有比照对象的参与，研究很难有所突破。

Everyone from researchers to wine experts knows that by writing down your impressions, you understand your experience better and have a reference point for the future.

从研究人员到美酒专家，每个人都知道通过写下感知和印象，可以有助于他们更好地积累经验和理解自我，并在未来作为参照。

There are other dimensions, some of which you are almost ignorant, in which however you exist, or have some valid effect; where you are projected and where in one way or another you form a reference point.

还有其他的维度，其中有些维度你们几乎是茫然无知的，然而你存在于其中，或者有一些有效的作用；在这些维度中，你是被投射出来的，在这些维度中，你以这样或那样的方式形成一个参照点。

By this time he can change his reference points, although his experience is so much more vivid, and so much fuller proportioned, that to him the experience could be likened to going down into a small cramped tunnel.

到这个时候，他可以改变自己的参照点，不过他的经验更加生动，比例也更加饱满，对他来说，这种经验可以比作为下到一个窄小的隧道。