tower
n. 塔；高楼；堡垒
vi. 高耸；超越
n. (Tower)人名；(英)托尔
n.
塔，楼塔；要害地；〈罕〉（负伤鸟的）笔直向上飞；〈美〉铁路信号所
vi.
远远高于，远远超过；高耸，超越；
na.
“Towers“的变体；
变形
复数：towers过去式：towered过去分词：towered现在分词：towering第三人称单数：towers
双语释义
n.(名词)[C]塔 tall narrow structure, usually square or circular, either standing alone or forming part of a church or a castle or some other large building
v.(动词)vi. 远远高于,远远超过 be of much great high than, greatly surpass others
英英释义
tower[ 'tauə ]
n.
a structure taller than its diameter; can stand alone or be attached to a larger building
anything tall and relatively thin that approximates the shape of a column or tower
"a tower of dust rose above the horizon"
同义词：columnpillar
a powerful small boat designed to pull or push larger ships
同义词：tugboattugtowboat
v.appear very large or occupy a commanding position
同义词：loompredominatehulk
词汇搭配
用作名词 (n.)
名词+～
bell tower钟楼
church tower教堂塔楼
concrete tower混凝土塔楼
control tower(机场的)控制塔
distillation tower蒸馏塔
signal tower信号塔
the Eiffel T-艾菲尔铁塔
TV tower电视塔
watch tower观望楼
water tower水塔
～+介词
the T- of London伦敦塔
a small tower of luggage叠得高高的一小堆行李
the Leaning T- of Pisa比萨斜塔
the T- of Babel巴别塔
tower of strength可信赖的人,支柱
用作动词 (v.)
～+副词
tower gigantically远远地高出
tower magnificently高大雄伟
tower massively大大地高过
tower prodigiously奇妙地高出
tower up高耸
～+介词
tower above比…高
tower over比…高
tower to高达…
词组短语
cooling tower冷却塔
eiffel tower艾菲尔铁塔（位于巴黎塞纳河南岸）
tower crane[机]塔式起重机
water tower水塔
distillation tower蒸馏塔
absorption tower吸收塔
tower above vt. 远远胜过；大大高出
bell tower n. 钟塔，钟楼
clock tower钟楼；钟塔
ivory tower n. 象牙塔（指脱离现实生活的小天地）
drum tower鼓楼
television tower电视塔
steel tower钢塔，铁架
packed tower填料塔；[生化]填充塔
transmission tower输电杆塔
bridge tower桥头堡；桥塔；索塔
tower structure塔式结构；框架式结构
leaning tower斜塔
control tower（机场）指挥塔台，控制塔
tower bridge n. 塔桥（在英国伦敦泰晤士河上的两端各有一塔）
双语例句
用作名词(n.)
There is a sonorous bell in the tower.
塔里有一口洪亮的钟。
The tower was blown to atoms by the force of the explosion.
爆炸的力量把塔炸得粉碎。
The bell tower is the emblem of this city.
这座钟楼是这个城市的象征。
用作不及物动词(vi.)
Above the victorian houses and shops tower the monster office blocks of the redeveloped center.
高耸于维多利亚时代房屋店铺之上的是新开发的市中心高大的办公楼群。
Shakespeare towers above all other Elizabethan dramatists.
莎士比亚远超过伊丽莎白时代所有的剧作家。
权威例句
A Vortical Hot Tower Route to Tropical Cyclogenesis.Unsafe in the Ivory Tower: The sexual victimization of college women
Bats Killed at a North Florida Television Tower: A 25-Year Record
Quality control and flux sampling problems for tower and aircraft data
A multi-site analysis of random error in tower-based measurements of carbon and energy fluxes
Large-scale fabrication of tower-like, flower-like, and tube-like ZnO arrays by a simple chemical solution route
A Global Terrestrial Monitoring Network Integrating Tower Fluxes, Flask Sampling, Ecosystem Modeling and EOS Satellite Data
The future of the university and the university of the future: evolution of ivory tower to entrepreneurial paradigm
Evaluation of remote sensing based terrestrial productivity from MODIS using regional tower eddy flux network observations
Search for weakly interacting massive particles with the first five-tower data from the cryogenic dark matter search at the soudan u...
tower
tower: [12] The ultimate source of tower is Greek túrris, a word probably from a pre-Indo- European language of the Mediterranean region. It passed into English via Latin turris and Old French tur, tor. Turret [14] comes from the Old French diminutive turet.=> turret
tower (v.)
c. 1400, "rise high" (implied in towered); see tower (n.). Also, of hawks, "to fly high so as to swoop down on prey" (1590s). Related: Towering.
tower (n.1)
Old English torr "tower, watchtower," from Latin turris "a tower, citadel, high structure" (also source of Old French tor, 11c.; Spanish, Italian torre "tower"), possibly from a pre-Indo-European Mediterranean language. Meaning "lofty pile or mass" is recorded from mid-14c. Also borrowed separately 13c. as tour, from Old French tur; the modern spelling (1520s) represents a merger of the two forms.
tower (n.2)
"one who tows," 1610s, agent noun from tow (v.).
1. The Tower of London stands in the East End of London.
伦敦塔位于伦敦的东区。
《21世纪大英汉词典》
2. The air-liner was calling the control tower at the airport.
这架大型客机正在向机场的指挥塔台呼叫。
《21世纪大英汉词典》
3. I felt dizzy when I looked down from the top of the television tower.
当我从电视塔顶往下看时，我感到头晕目眩。
《21世纪大英汉词典》
4. One can see the reflection of the tower in the water.
塔的影子倒映在水中。
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5. And then built this -- this is the Smith Tower in Seattle.
接着有人做了这个--这是模拟西雅图的史密斯塔。
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6. One leaped from the Round Tower and slit his throat on the way down.
一个从圆塔顶上跳下来，在下落的途中划破了自己的喉咙。
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7. Then he races behind his tower and jumps at her from the other side.
然后，他箭一般地跑到塔楼的后面，从另一侧跳向雌鸟。
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8. He said he and his pilot watched the second plane hit the south tower from the helicopter.
在直升机上，他说他和他的飞行员看到第二架飞机撞上南边的塔。
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9. That man leaping from the Round Tower was clear enough.
那个从圆塔上跳下来的人，就迹象很明显了。
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10. I watched on television as the second plane smashed into the South Tower.
当第二架飞机撞上世贸南塔时我正在看电视实况。
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11. In silhouette against a crowded star field toward the constellation Scorpius, this dusty cosmic cloud evokes for some the image of an ominous dark tower.
在天蝎座拥挤的星野背景衬托下显出暗色轮廓，这个多尘的宇宙云的形象让人联想起某种不祥的黑塔。
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12. That’s a tall order for a tower, but the collection of non-profits that comprise the Center, along with a strong community, feel up to it.
对高楼来说，这是难以满足的要求，但是，包括该中心以及一个强大社区在内的非营利性组织认为他们能够做到。
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13. Visitor: Oh, I see, How about the tower?
参观者：哦，是这样。 那这个塔呢？
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14. LANDSCAPE】From the church tower, we can overlook the beautiful landscape of the valley.
从教堂的塔上，我们可以俯瞰山谷美丽的景色。
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15. This does, however, limit the tower’s storage capacity.
但是这样做会降低料塔的存储能力。
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16. People just flying wherever the fuck they want would be a death warrant for every radio tower and power line in the country.
人们飞着去他们想去的任何地方，这会让每个电台天线塔和国家的输电线处在一击致命的危险中。
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17. In the next room, her tiny waiting room, my children are uproariously knocking a Jenga tower over another, far better behaved waiting family and not putting their shoes on as I have asked them to.
在隔壁那间房里，也就是她那间狭小的候诊室，我的孩子们在吵吵闹闹地推翻一个又一个积木叠层塔，表现得远比等待家人要好，而且没有按我的吩咐穿上他们的鞋子。
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18. But the American architects of this tower - SOM - insist that their experiments in a wind tunnel show this building will generate economically viable wind power.
但本塔的美国建筑师（SOM）坚持认为，在一个风洞的实验表明，这座大楼将产生经济上可行的风力发电。
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19. Children need to know the name of the Lord is a strong tower; they can run into it and are safe (Prov.
孩子们需要知道主的名字是一所充满力量的塔，他们可以跑进里面，并且其是安全的。
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20. For Simpson, though, seeing her hot tower hypothesis verified over the next two decades was surely a kind of poetic justice as well.
然而，对于辛普森来讲，由于她的热塔理论在随后的二十多年中被验证，肯定是一种应得的奖赏。
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21. From the top of this tower you can see how big this factory is.
从这个塔德顶部往下看你可以发现这个工厂有多大。
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22. Success of the week was the solar power tower – we should have electric lights by tonight.
本周取得的成功是建成太阳能电池塔，今天晚上我们就有电了。
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23. With six work elevators, the tower hoisted construction materials better—and more cheaply—than any cranes.
这高楼里有六部工作电梯，能更好地吊运建材，比任何吊车都要便宜。
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24. Prior to POWER7, there was a third variation of this technology, utilizing a switchable storage tower on an HSL loop, but that option is no longer available on POWER7 hardware.
在POWER7之前，存在这种技术的第三种变体，就是在HSL循环上使用一个可切换的存储塔，但是POWER7硬件已经不再提供此选项了。
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25. Prior to POWER7, there was a third variation of this technology, utilizing a switchable storage tower on an HSL loop, but that option is no longer available on POWER7 hardware.
在POWER7之前，存在这种技术的第三种变体，就是在HSL循环上使用一个可切换的存储塔，但是POWER7硬件已经不再提供此选项了。
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26. An over-temperature alarm and interlock is provided on the gases leaving the concentrating tower.
在离开浓缩塔的气体中安置有超温报警器和联锁装置。
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
27. "Location: The Tower Club, 8000 Crescent Drive 17th Floor, Tysons Corner, Virginia"
地址:弗吉尼亚州(Fairfax 县)泰森斯角(区)tower 新月大街8000号第17层tower 俱乐部
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 翻译样例 - 应用
28. The tourists admired the view from the tower.
游客赞美登塔远眺的景色。
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
29. The tower chief murmured.
值班主任轻轻地说道。
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
30. Well is it known that ambition can creep as well as soar (Edmund Burke). To tower is to attain a height or prominence exceeding that of anything in the surroundings:
世人皆知，抱负既能飞腾也能爬行（爱德蒙 伯克）。tower表示获得超出周围任何物体的高度或声望：
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 短句参考
31. After innumerable comments, difficulties, and delays, the intricate tower was at length completed.
经过了好一番的批评，异议和耽搁之后，那座错综复杂的塔终于完成了。
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
32. As I near the North Tower, the wind tugs at my role.
当我接近北塔的时候，风牵动着我的平衡杆。
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
33. a tower crowned with a spire
顶有尖塔之塔
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
34. I have not yet been able to arrange the contest in the tower.
我还不能安排塔上的角力赛。
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
35. the confusion of tongues
(建造通天塔 (tower of Babel) 时的) 言语的混乱
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
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