1.抓不着要点;不得要领
2.不懂(俏皮话等的)妙处
1.to fail to understand something
1.Some suggestions for livening up the Festival seem less than helpful. They miss the point of the affair.
一些活跃节日气氛的建议看来帮助较小。他们没有抓住这项活动的精神。
2.Lest anyone miss the point, Patolichev was all smiles when he left the White House.
唯恐有人不理解，帕托利切夫在离开白宫时满面堆笑。
3.But all these seem to me to miss the point.
但是所有的这些理由都似乎没有切中要害。
4.The Message paraphrase says, "In all this comparing and grading and competing, they quite miss the point. "
意思是：「在这一切的比较、评分和争竞当中，他们错失要点。」
5.Delano throughout misses the point of what he is seeing. Did Melville expect the reader to miss the point as well ?
由始至终都没有说到他看见了什么这一点？梅尔维尔也希望读者忘记这一点吗？。
6.If we view them simply as kids' stories, kind of like the Grimm's Fairy Tales of the Bible, we miss the point.
如果我们只是把它们当作儿童故事，好像圣经版的格林童话，那我们就大错特错了。
7.They miss the point. As a politician, Margaret Thatcher was a study in reinvention.
他们没有理解：作为一个政治家，玛格丽特•撒切尔免不了被人们研究重塑。
8.you and your routine miss the Point miss the Point of sPontaneity entirely.
你和你的日常计划已完全违背自发的主旨了。
9.If you don't adapt your ideas to the audience's capacity and experience, they are bound to miss the point.
如果你不根据听众的接受能力和经历背景来重新组织和表述你的观点，那他们肯定会抓不住要点。
10.But in a way, I feel like these classes somewhat miss the point.
但是在某种程度上，我觉得这些类有些不得要领。