1. In former times, prisoners´ heads were impaled on pointed stakes.
    从前的人把监犯的头钉在尖桩上.

2. It can properly be described as the first ´home computer´ and it pointed the way to the future.
    严格地说起来，它可以被称为第一台"家用电脑"，而且它也指了今后的方向。

3. Who produced it with a flourish and pointed out a microscopic ´o´ beside the time of the arrival of the train at his station;
    站长拿着时刻表一挥手，指着那趟列车到站时刻旁边一个很小的圆圈标记。

4. In 1883 an American physician, A.F.A.King, listed twenty observations which he believed pointed to mosquitoes as a factor in malaria.
    1883年，一位叫A. F. A. 金的美国内科医生列举了他所观察到的20种现象，说明蚊子极可能是产生疟疾的因素。

5. I noticed they were from the Gestapo. They pointed to the two suitcases full of my diaries.
    我注意到他们都是盖世太保的人。他们指着那两个装满了我日记的箱子。

6. I am also angry because a gun is pointed at me by someone I've never met and never hurt.
    我明白我为什么会想象自己遭到一个男子的抢劫：他们在身体上占有优势，而且我也从没听说有谁遭到过一个女人的抢劫。