| 单词 | towering |
| 释义 | towering (once / 856 pages) adj Towering things are extremely tall, like the towering skyscrapers in New York City or the towering redwoods in northern California. Use the adjective towering to describe gigantic things that loom over everything (or everyone) else. There's the towering basketball player in your yoga class who is at least a foot taller than the other students, and the towering addition your neighbor is building on his house — the one that will block your view of the lake. The verb tower means "to rise high," from the Latin for "tower," turris. WORD FAMILYtowering: toweringly+/tow: towage, towed, tower, towing, tows/tower: towered, towering, towers USAGE EXAMPLESThe plan will result in towering structures in the wrong places, a paucity of parks, crowded schools and a continuation of nightmare-inducing traffic. Washington Post(Jan 02, 2017) While the quarterback isn’t a towering presence in the pocket, he’s accurate, mobile, poised and competitive. Los Angeles Times(Dec 31, 2016) No figure among them was as towering as Ali. New York Times(Dec 30, 2016) adj of imposing height; especially standing out above others towering icebergs Syn eminent, lofty, soaring high (literal meaning) being at or having a relatively great or specific elevation or upward extension (sometimes used in combinations like `knee-high') |
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