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If a point is salient, it is the one that stands out: the most important, or the easiest to notice. People say the salient points of a talk, meaning the few things you should take away.
If a point is salient如果一個論點是salient的, it is它就是the one that stands out那個特別突出的: the most important最重要的, or或the easiest to notice最容易被注意到的。People say人們會說the salient pointsthe salient points（重點）of a talk一場演講的, meaning意思是the few things那幾件事you should take away你應該記住帶走的。
It is a rather formal school-and-office word; in casual talk you would just say the main points.
It is這是a rather formal school-and-office word一個相當正式、學校和職場用的詞; in casual talk在輕鬆的對話裡you would just say你只會說the main pointsthe main points（重點）。
Though actually, the word is older than that meaning. In coats of arms, an animal that is salient is leaping. In war, a salient is a place where the front line bulges out into the other side’s ground.
Though actually不過實際上, the word這個字is older than比...還要古老that meaning那個意思。In coats of arms在紋章學裡, an animal that is salient一隻姿態是salient的動物is leaping是正在躍起的。In war在戰爭中, a saliente salient(突出部)is a place是一個地方where the front line前線在那裡bulges out into向外凸出進入the other side’s ground對方的地盤。
meet the “standing out” sense first. That sense grew from salient point, an old name for the tiny heart that seemed to jump in an opened egg — a “leaping point” that later came to mean the point that matters.
Learners學生meet最先接觸到的the “standing out” sense是「突出」這個意思first最先。That sense那個意思grew from是從...發展出來的salient pointsalient point, an old name for這是舊時對...的稱呼the tiny heart那顆小小的心臟that seemed to jump看起來會跳動的in an opened egg在打開的蛋裡— a “leaping point”——一個「躍動的點」——, that later came to mean後來演變成指the point that matters重要的那一點。
The noun for the quality is .
The noun for...的名詞形the quality這個特質的is是saliencesalience。
組成From Latin salientem, accusative of saliēns (“leaping”), present participle of saliō (“to leap”). The heraldic sense “leaping” and the sense “sticking out” come from that. The senses “prominent” and “to the point” are later, from the phrase salient point, a calque of Latin punctum saliēns, Aristotle’s term for the embryonal heart that seemed to move in an opened egg. Compare German der springende Punkt.
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- saliencethe noun: how much something stands out
原始詞典資料10 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
salientadj/ˈseɪ.li.ənt/
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Worthy of note; pertinent or relevant.
- The article is not exhaustive, but it covers the salient points pretty well.
- With nearer approach these fragmentary sounds became pieced together, and were found to be the salient points of the tune called "Nancy's Fancy."
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Prominent; conspicuous.
- Warning me that many of the street signs were down, the youth drew for my benefit a rough but ample and painstaking sketch map of the town's salient features.
- He [Grenville] had neither salient traits, nor general comprehensiveness of mind.
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governmentheraldryhobbiesDepicted in a leaping posture.
- a lion salient
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governmentmilitarypoliticsProjecting outwards, pointing outwards.
- a salient angle
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obsoleteMoving by leaps or springs; jumping.
- frogs and salient animals
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obsoleteShooting or springing out; projecting.
- He had in himſelf a ſalient, living ſpring of generous and manly action.
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geometrymathematicssciencesDenoting any angle less than two right angles.
salientnoun/ˈseɪ.li.ənt/
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governmentmilitarypoliticsAn outwardly projecting part of a fortification, trench system, or line of defense.
- On April 26 the First Division had gone into the line in the Montdidier salient on the Picardy battlefront.
- The battlefronts were often no more than a few hundred yards wide, and the salients never more than a few miles deep.
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geographynatural-sciencesA protrusion of the administrative borders of a geopolitical entity, such as a subnational entity or a sovereign state into another geopolitical entity, generally of the same administrative level.
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geographygeologynatural-sciencesAn overall-convex, protruding section of a sinuous fold and thrust belt, thrust sheet, or a single thrust fault, caused by one or more of: deformation (folding and faulting) of strata and geologic structures during orogenesis, differences in the angle of critical taper during orogenesis, or differing erosional level of the present geomorphological surface.
- Orogenic arcs are made up by more advanced segments (salients) separated by less advanced zones (recesses) (Miser, 1932). Within salients, the critical taper is lower, the distance among thrust ramps is larger, and there may be more ramps departing from the basal décollement layer with respect to the recess areas.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。