Tower

(noun.) a structure taller than its diameter; can stand alone or be attached to a larger building.

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• Three of the weapons struck against him, and splintered with as little effect as if they had been driven against a tower of steel. 沃尔特·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. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• He knew himself by no other name than One Hundred and Five, North Tower, when he made shoes under my care. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• 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. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• 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. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• A long series of experiments resulted in the invention of the tower dryer with a capacity of three hundred tons per hour. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Some years ago the clock in the tower of the mosque got out of order. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Since then they have taken the form of iron skeleton towers. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• 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. 神奇的知识之书.
• 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. 世纪发明.
• 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. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• It is a quarter of an hour's walk from there to Appledore Towers. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• At short intervals along the Spanish shore were quaint-looking old stone towers--Moorish, we thought--but learned better afterwards. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• 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. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• There was but a single way, and that led through the mighty, towering trees upon our right. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• 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. 十九世纪发明进展.
• 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. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• 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. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• 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. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• At length we saw the numerous steeples of London, St. Paul's towering above all, and the Tower famed in English history. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• Malone, being neither good-natured nor phlegmatic, was presently in a towering passion. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• 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. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
• The head of the topmost warrior towered over forty feet from the ground. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
• Tars Tarkas, whose giant stature towered high above the rest of us, could see the farthest. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• The fellow towered nearly sixteen feet in height, while Kantos Kan was some inches under six feet. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
• The way wound through enchanted parks to a mighty wall that towered a hundred feet in air. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• Still the same lofty domes and minarets towered above the verdurous walls, where Constantine had died, and the Turk had entered the city. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• The juggernaut on his car towered there a grim load. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.

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