towers
英 ['taʊəz] 美 ['taʊəz]

n.

塔( tower的名词复数 )；高柜；高架子；（电视或无线电信号的）发射塔

v.

远远高于，远远超过( tower的第三人称单数 )；（在能力、品德、名声等方面）胜过，远远超过（其他人）；

英英释义

tower[ 'tauəz ]

• 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

词组短语

twin towers双塔式建筑

petronas towers双子星塔（位于马来西亚吉隆坡）；国油双子塔

双语例句

1. From my hotel window there were seven church towers within my field of view.
   从我旅馆的窗户往外看，可看见7座教堂塔。
2. I look ahead, and before me rise the fantastic towers of New York, a city that seems to have stepped from the pages of a fairy story.
   我展望前头，纽约的高楼大厦在我前面升起，似乎是从童话故事的篇章中出现的一座城市。
3. 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。
4. There are many strong and stately towers in Beijing.
   北京有很多坚固而雄伟的城楼。

权威例句

Coxeter Graphs and Towers of Algebras
Knot concordance, Whitney towers and $L^2$-signatures
Flux Sampling Errors for Aircraft and Towers
The Role of “Vortical” Hot Towers in the Formation of Tropical Cyclone Diana (1984).
What the towers don't see at night: nocturnal sap flow in trees and shrubs at two AmeriFlux sites in California
Rational points of abelian varieties with values in towers of number fields
Measurements of carbon dioxide on very tall towers: results of the NOAA/CMDL program
Analytical study on wind-induced vibration of power transmission towers
Nesting by Raptors and Common Ravens on Electrical Transmission Line Towers Author(s)
Mating competitiveness of mass-reared males of the Mediterranean fruit fly (Diptera: Tephritidae) from eclosion towers