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词汇 tower
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tower

noun
 
/ˈtaʊə(r)/
/ˈtaʊər/
Idioms
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    a tall narrow building or part of a building, especially of a church or castle塔;建筑物的塔形部分;(尤指教堂或城堡的)塔楼
    • a bell tower钟楼
    • the Eiffel Tower埃菲尔铁塔
    • a 19-storey office tower 一座19层的办公大楼
    • The castle is rectangular in shape, with a tower at each corner.城堡呈长方形,每个角各有一个塔楼。
    see also clock tower, conning tower, control tower, cooling tower, ivory tower, Martello tower, the Twin Towers, watchtower, water tower
    • Armed guards manned the lookout towers.监视塔上有武装警卫。
    • They lived in a ten-storey tower in the town centre.他们住在市中心的一幢10 层塔楼。
    • Twin towers flanked the castle gateway.双子塔守卫在城堡入口的两侧。
    • the spot where the towers once stood曾经屹立着多座塔的地方
    • The brick tower was built in around four months.这座砖塔大约在四个月内建成。
    Topics Buildingsa2, Religion and festivalsa2
    Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • high
    • high-rise
    • lofty
    tower + verb
    • collapse
    • fall
    • stand
    tower + noun
    • block
  2. (often in compounds常构成复合词) a tall structure used for sending television or radio signals(电视或无线电信号的)发射塔
    • a television tower电视塔
    Topics TV, radio and newsb2
  3. (usually in compounds通常构成复合词) a tall piece of furniture used for storing things高柜;高架子
    • a CD tower光盘柜
  4. 词源Old English torr, reinforced in Middle English by Old French tour, from Latin turris, from Greek.
Idioms
a tower of strength
  1. a person that you can rely on to help, protect and comfort you when you are in trouble(危难时的)可依靠的人,主心骨
    • He was a tower of strength to his sisters when their father died.父亲死后,他成了姊妹们的支柱。

tower

verb
/ˈtaʊə(r)/
/ˈtaʊər/
动词形式
present simple I / you / we / they tower
/ˈtaʊə(r)/
/ˈtaʊər/
he / she / it towers
/ˈtaʊəz/
/ˈtaʊərz/
past simple towered
/ˈtaʊəd/
/ˈtaʊərd/
past participle towered
/ˈtaʊəd/
/ˈtaʊərd/
-ing form towering
/ˈtaʊərɪŋ/
/ˈtaʊərɪŋ/
Phrasal Verbs
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