音标:['tauәriŋ] ; 柯林斯词典等级:1 级;
a. 高耸的, 激烈的
v appear very large or occupy a commanding position
s of imposing height; especially standing out above others

考试类型:[托福]
词性分布:
形容词100%

towering的用法和样例:

例句

用作形容词(adj.)
  1. They built a TV tower on the towering hill.他们在高耸的山顶建起了一座电视塔。
  2. The living room is bedimmed by the towering trees outside.室外高耸的树木,于客厅显得昏暗。

词汇搭配

  • tower塔
  • towering kiln塔式炉,塔式熏烟炉...
  • in a towering passion怒气冲天
  • in a towering rage怒气冲天

经典引文

  • That world of endless moors and towering hills.

    出自:R. Pilcher
  • A towering grim man in overalls.

    出自:R. Banks
【近义词】

Item Nine. Vocabulary. towering, perish, Sumatra, Aceh. More than 160,000 people died or disappeared in northern Sumatra on December 26th 2004, when towering waves battered the coast. Tens of thousands more perished in a dozen countries surrounding t

发表于:2018-12-27 / 阅读(197) / 评论(0) 分类 Step by Step 3000 第二册

Since the 18th century, St. Louis, Missouri has offered travelers a hub to begin their adventures into the western frontier. Its nickname the Gateway to the West is symbolized by the towering focal point of the St. Louis skyline: the Gateway Arch. It

发表于:2019-01-14 / 阅读(318) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2010年(十一)月
学英语单词
air-reservoir
akawaios
allaric acid
aortitis
apple fritter
ass pull
be in low spirits
beachcombs
bessel's equation
beta-amino acid
braes
bring sth off
carprofen
color differences
cometic aberration
competetive
convinsible
coodoo
creeping buttercups
cross-field spectrometer
d'origine
damper cylinder body
deergrasses
destruct command
Diethylether
dyne-centimeter
e.t.c
ekpwele
endosteums
euclidean geometries
Ewald-sphere construction
external combustion engine
fallis
free companion
functional music
greeking
ilsac
interracialize
isotope geothermometer
jacquier
joe louiss
line of same dip
lip-born
liquid hydrogen pump
low suction controller
low-temperature sintering
Mankoya
marginal swell
mccourts
meanable
measuring oscilloscope
meteorosensitive
microperforation
mocezuelo
naturalistic observation
navigational lights
nitrating pot
node identifier
nonfinancial incentive
o'quinn
object space
oil pump strainer
Old Right
operator genes
overprocessed
overselling
passport baby
pebble peat
Peperomia heyneana
perineoplasties
piaroas
power system collapse
primecap
radioimmunosorbent test
reaction testing plates
rectified signal
red mercury oxide
redownload
regulatory albuminuria
revenue-earning
reverse count
roentgenotherapeutic
saw-tooth antenna
seeding area
severe combined immune deficiency
shear-type cutting off die
siberian spruces
sleeve board
southwestern lip ferns
table-beer
tees
title tag
total budgeted expenditure
Turner, Nat
unit anisotropy
unit system
unregisterable
unviciate
vas aberrans inferius
veda (hindu)
whale rope
written symbols