Write an outline before you start writing the article, or you would easily write something that is beside the point.

在开始撰写文章之前写一个大纲，不然你很容易就会写一些离题的东西。

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Saying that they connect to the Internet is beside the point.

至于说它们能连到互联网，那就是另外一码事了。

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To some, this obsession with distant targets is beside the point.

对一些人来说，被遥远的目标困扰是不切实际的做法。

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Again whether you agree or not with the project is beside the point,it was the greatest,positively speaking, scientific project in history where the minds got together.

无论你是否同意这计划,积极来说，它都是最伟大的计划，聚集起了最优秀的人才。

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To get down to it, you have to cut away what is not true, what is inflated, beside the point, excess, ornament.

更直接点，你们要去掉不真实的，除了这点还有膨胀的，过量的和装饰的。

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Let me read you a quick excerpt by Abraham Maslow who talks about this approach, "If one took a course or picked up a book on the psychology of learning, most of it, in my opinion, would be beside the point - that is, beside the 'humanistic' point.

我来给你们读一小段Abraham，Maslow的话，“如果有人上了一门关于心理学学习的课，或者看了一本这方面的书，大部分内容，在我看来，是与重点无关的-,也就是，与人性无关。

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Ultimately the issue of whether managers or office developers like this trend is beside the point.

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Whether or not I understand the intricacies of the gaming industry corporate ladder is beside the point.

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What Vendors want is beside the point and those companies that learn and move will be profitable.

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