英语释义

1. a building or structure typically higher than its diameter and high relative to its surroundings that may stand apart (such as a campanile) or be attached (such as a church belfry) to a larger structure and that may be fully walled in or of skeleton framework (such as an observation or transmission tower)

2. a towering citadel fortress

3. one that provides support or protection bulwark
a tower of strength

4. a personal computer case that stands in an upright position

5. to reach or rise to a great height

6. to exhibit superior qualities surpass
her intellect towered over the others'

7. a tall, narrow building or structure that may stand apart from or be attached to another building or structure

8. a tall piece of furniture used to store something

9. a personal computer that stands in an upright position

10. a building or structure that is higher than its length or width, is higher than most of what surrounds it, and may stand by itself or be attached to a larger structure

片语

double-towered buildings双塔结构

clock tower钟楼；钟塔

towered tower高耸

bridge tower桥头堡；桥塔；索塔

tower crane塔式起重机

steel tower钢塔，铁架

Towered ship楼船

drum tower鼓楼

double towered gatehouse两侧有双塔的城楼

distillation tower蒸馏塔

ivory tower象牙塔（指脱离现实生活的小天地）

towered buildings塔楼

Towered Gumbos秋葵塔

Towered Ship troops楼船军

packed tower[化工] 填料塔；填充塔

water tower水塔

double towered双塔的

towered d塔式的

television tower电视塔

bell tower钟塔，钟楼

eiffel tower艾菲尔铁塔（位于巴黎塞纳河南岸）

tower structure塔式结构；框架式结构

leaning tower斜塔

absorption tower[化工] 吸收塔

tower bridge塔桥（在英国伦敦泰晤士河上的两端各有一塔）

transmission tower输电桿塔

tower above远远胜过；大大高出

control tower（机场）指挥塔台，控制塔

cooling tower冷却塔

英汉例句

• Cutting its bloated management ranks is a huge break from the past, when G.M. towered over its competitors as the world「s biggest automaker for more than 70 years.

  削减其浮肿的管理阶层是与过去的重大决裂，在过去70多年里，通用作为世界上最大的汽车生产商堪称傲视群雄。

• The icebergs towered above them.

  冰山高耸于他们上方。

• He towered above the crowd.

  他比众人高出许多。

• To our north towered the Crazies, an extension of the Rocky Mountains.

  在我们北边耸立的群山是落基山脉的一部分。

• The tall building towered above all the others.

  那栋大楼高出其他所有的建筑。

• His computer contains numerous animated models of the construction site, where a tiny Eiffel tower is used for scale, towered over by the vast project.

  他的电脑里保存这很多有关施工现场的动态模型，其中一个缩小的埃菲尔铁塔被用作比例尺，俯视着这项巨大的工程。

• THE mighty, shimmering Ginkgo towered over the shrine steps and, as legend has it, had stood witness to history being made in Japan for over 800 years.

  这棵见证了日本800多年历史的银杏树，高大璀璨的耸立在神社的台阶上。

• He envisioned himself as a third baseman, but his body had other ideas. Kupchak soon towered over his peers.

  他想象自己是个三垒手，但他的身体有其他想法。库普·切克很快就从同龄人中脱颖而出。

• So at six years old, Hayley towered over her classmates.

  所以，海莉六岁的时候在班里就与其他同学不同。

• The master」s bedchamber was situated in a section built originally in the fifteenth century, facing sheer rock precipices that towered over a narrow glen.

  总领的卧房，位于一个最初建于十五世纪的区域，面对着那纵跨一狭小幽谷的尖锐石质悬崖。

• The general may not have been the perfect leader for his country, but at the time he towered over anyone else.

  这位将军可能不是他的国家的十全十美的领导人，但当时他比其他任何人都强得多。

• Two cranes towered above the structure as of last week, visible to farmers across Huangjia Lake fertilizing vegetable plots.

  两架起重机上周悄然从大楼上矗立起来，黄家湖畔给蔬菜施肥的农民看得一清二楚。

• He is so tall that he towered over them.

  他很高，在人群中高耸挺立着。

• This song proceeded from the gloomy edifice which towered above the garden.

  歌声是从园中最高的那所大楼里传来的。

• Glistening, snowy peaks towered over the rolling highland moors of copper-leafed wild azaleas which in May form a sea of flowers.

  5月间的野生红叶杜鹃在这绵延起伏的高原荒野上连成一片花海，一座柔润洁白的山峰屹立在花海之间。

• Bach's gifts towered over those of his contemporaries.

  巴赫的天赋超过他所有同时代的人。

• Mountains of water ice towered above smooth plains, jumbled together as if ancient tectonic forces had pushed them across a sea of soft nitrogen ice like drifting icebergs.

  (水)冰山矗立在由光滑的平原上，拥挤在一起，就像在软的氮冰海上漂流的冰山被古构造力把推在了一起。

• Churches in the Christian areas towered over low-rise, beige houses.

  基督教区的教堂耸立在低矮，土黄色的房子之上。

• She shouted; her brother, at six feet tall, towered over most Japanese men, and she knew at a glimpse that it was him.

  他的弟弟，有六英尺高，比大多数的日本人高出一头，她瞥一眼就知道那个高个子就是他。

• The other girls towered over her.

  其它女孩高耸在她上方。

• She shouted; her brother, at six feet, towered over most Japanese men, and she knew at a glimpse that it was he.

  他的弟弟，有六英尺高，比大多数的日本人高出一头，她瞥一眼就知道那个高个子就是他。

• I was always the biggest guy around, but he towered over me-a big dude with a soft touch who could pass the ball.

  此前，我总是场上最高的，但他还要高我一截，这个大家伙接球很轻，你可以放心把球传给他。

• At the far end of the bridge the walls of the city towered high above them and the brazen gates stood open in the gateway which was really wide but looked narrow because it was so very high.

  大桥另一头的桥堍上，高高矗立着城墻，城门洞里的黄铜城门打开着，城门洞确实很大很阔，但因为它很高，倒显得狭窄了。

• Above the apricot trees towered thirty majestic palms, their fernlike fronds splayed like open fingers against the starry sky.

  杏树之上耸立着三十株庄严的棕榈树，它们蕨状的叶子如伸开的手指般在星空下散开。

• When a huge green wall of water towered before him, he would think: 「I might possibly shoot through that.」

  当巨大的绿色水墻高耸于眼前时，库特兹会想：「我或许有可能穿过去。」

• There towered the twelve oaks, as they had stood since Indian days, but with their leaves brown from fire and the branches burned and scorched.

  十二棵大橡树高耸在那里，从印第安时代以来一直是这样，不过现在树叶被火熏黑了一些，枝柯有的烧毁有的烤焦了。

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