Tower
['taʊə] or ['taʊɚ]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a structure taller than its diameter; can stand alone or be attached to a larger building.
編輯:梅尔维尔--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A mass of building standing alone and insulated, usually higher than its diameter, but when of great size not always of that proportion.
(n.) A projection from a line of wall, as a fortification, for purposes of defense, as a flanker, either or the same height as the curtain wall or higher.
(n.) A structure appended to a larger edifice for a special purpose, as for a belfry, and then usually high in proportion to its width and to the height of the rest of the edifice; as, a church tower.
(n.) A citadel; a fortress; hence, a defense.
(n.) A headdress of a high or towerlike form, fashionable about the end of the seventeenth century and until 1715; also, any high headdress.
(n.) High flight; elevation.
(v. i.) To rise and overtop other objects; to be lofty or very high; hence, to soar.
(v. t.) To soar into.
杰奎琳編輯
同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. Turret, MINARET.[2]. Citadel, fortress, castle, stronghold.
v. n. Soar, mount, rise.
整理:塔尼娅
解釋/意思:
n. a lofty building standing alone or forming part of another: a fortress: (her.) a bearing representing a tower with battlements &c.: a high head-dress worn by women under William III. and Anne.—v.i. to rise into the air: to be lofty.—v.t. (Milt.) to rise aloft into.—adjs. Tow′ered having towers; Tow′ering very high elevated: very violent; Tow′ery having towers: lofty.
格雷西校對
娱乐性解釋/意思：
To dream of seeing a tower, denotes that you will aspire to high elevations. If you climb one, you will succeed in your wishes, but if the tower crumbles as you descend, you will be disappointed in your hopes. See Ladder.
欧文整理
例句/造句/用法:
- Three of the weapons struck against him, and splintered with as little effect as if they had been driven against a tower of steel. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- It is well watered, and its affluent vegetation gains effect by contrast with the barren hills that tower on either side. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- He knew himself by no other name than One Hundred and Five, North Tower, when he made shoes under my care. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- It is true that the tower commanded a pretty view by land and water, but Colonel Sellers himself might have projected this enterprise as a possible source of steady income. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Then, amid cheers of encouragement from the immense throng that was watching, he turned sharply past the starting-tower and flew between the flags that marked the starting-line. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- A long series of experiments resulted in the invention of the tower dryer with a capacity of three hundred tons per hour. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Some years ago the clock in the tower of the mosque got out of order. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Since then they have taken the form of iron skeleton towers. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- The two towers at the axis supporting the wheel were 140 feet high, and the motive power was secured from a 1,000 horse-power steam engine under the wheel. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- This class of bridges is usually constructed with chains or cables passing over towers, with the roadway suspended beneath. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- A supper-table was laid for two, in the third of the rooms; a round room, in one of the chateau's four extinguisher-topped towers. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- It is a quarter of an hour's walk from there to Appledore Towers. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- At short intervals along the Spanish shore were quaint-looking old stone towers--Moorish, we thought--but learned better afterwards. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- If we went to Italy, to sacred and eternal Rome, we might with greater patience submit to the decree, which had laid her mighty towers low. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- There was but a single way, and that led through the mighty, towering trees upon our right. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- From the towering lighthouses of our coasts its beams are thrown seaward, and a beacon for the mariner shines beyond all other lights. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- There were towering cliffs on our left, and the pretty Lago di Lecco on our right, and every now and then it rained on us. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- The great apes, towering in all their fifteen feet of height, had gone down before my sword while the charging guards were still some distance away. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- We hurried across the ravine and up a winding road, and stood on the old Acropolis, with the prodigious walls of the citadel towering above our heads. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- At length we saw the numerous steeples of London, St. Paul's towering above all, and the Tower famed in English history. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- Malone, being neither good-natured nor phlegmatic, was presently in a towering passion. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- About noon I dragged myself wearily to the portals of a huge building which covered perhaps four square miles and towered two hundred feet in the air. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- The head of the topmost warrior towered over forty feet from the ground. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- Tars Tarkas, whose giant stature towered high above the rest of us, could see the farthest. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- The fellow towered nearly sixteen feet in height, while Kantos Kan was some inches under six feet. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- The way wound through enchanted parks to a mighty wall that towered a hundred feet in air. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- Still the same lofty domes and minarets towered above the verdurous walls, where Constantine had died, and the Turk had entered the city. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- The juggernaut on his car towered there a grim load. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
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