核心畫面

Picture one tall, narrow thing standing among much lower things — a stone tower on a castle wall, a church above the roofs. Two features do all the work: it is far taller than what surrounds it, and it takes up very little ground. Every other use of tower can be thought of as keeping one or both of those features: the shape (tall and thin) or the relation (rising far above everything nearby).

可以想成一根又高又窄的東西,站在一堆矮很多的東西中間——城牆上的石塔、屋頂群之上的教堂尖塔。真正在做事的只有兩個特徵更多收起可以想成一根又高又窄的東西,站在一堆矮很多的東西中間——城牆上的石塔、屋頂群之上的教堂尖塔。真正在做事的只有兩個特徵:它比周圍高出很多,而且佔的地很小。tower 後面各種用法,都像是留住了其中一個特徵:不是那個「高瘦」的形狀,就是那個「高過旁邊一大截」的關係。

Three branches

又高又窄的建築或結構

這一族抓的是「形狀」:不管是石造的、鋼架的,還是房間裡的一個櫃子,只要是高高瘦瘦、往上長的,就用得上這個字。

tall building · noun · B1

A tall, narrow building or part of a building such as a castle or church.

塔/高樓

高出周圍一大截(動詞)

這一族抓的是「關係」:把塔的畫面從一個東西變成一個動作,重點不再是它長什麼樣,而是它比旁邊高出多少。所以後面幾乎都跟著 over 或 above。

rise high above · verb · B1

To rise far above the people, buildings, or things standing nearby.

高聳/高出許多

像塔一樣可以靠的人

把塔的另一面借來形容人:塔又高又穩,風吹不倒,遇到危險時人是躲到塔裡去的。

a tower of strength · noun · B1

Someone who gives you strong support and comfort when you are in trouble.

堅強的支柱

原始詞典資料22 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

Towername

  • 1

    The Tower of London, especially seen as a place of imprisonment or punishment.

    • Traitors should be sent to the Tower!
  • 2

    A habitational surname.; Alternative form of Towers.

  • 3

    A city in Saint Louis County, Minnesota, United States.

Towernoun

  • 1

    Denoting the system of weights used by the Saxon and Norman English kings in their minting of coins.

towernoun詞源 1/ˈtaʊ.ə(ɹ)/

  • 1

    A tall, narrow structure (significantly taller than it is wide, either standing alone or forming part of a larger structure.

    • an observation tower, an isolated watch tower, a church tower, conning tower
    • The valley is closed in at the lower end by the village, the church tower and a few roofs being visible through the trees; […]
  • 2

    A tall, narrow structure (significantly taller than it is wide, either standing alone or forming part of a larger structure.

    • signal tower, radio tower, cell tower
  • 3

    A tall, narrow structure (significantly taller than it is wide, either standing alone or forming part of a larger structure.

    • observation tower, watch tower
  • 4

    A tall, narrow structure (significantly taller than it is wide, either standing alone or forming part of a larger structure.

  • 5

    A tall, narrow structure (significantly taller than it is wide, either standing alone or forming part of a larger structure.

    • The Sears Tower
    • He'd taken her to see […] The Towering Inferno […] She imagined the screen itself must be hot as the burning San Francisco tower. […] She expected the screen to go up in a sheath of flame as the Glass Tower had, expected sparks to leap from the aluminum into the surrounding hayfields, […]
  • 6

    An item of various kinds, such as a computer case, that is higher than it is wide.

  • 7

    A strong refuge; a defence.

    • Thou hast been a shelter for me, and a strong tower from the enemy.
    • A group of giraffes is called a tower.
  • 8

    businessEach of a set of information technology concerns within a business, which are treated separately so that they can be handled by different providers.

    • Suppliers compete separately for the towers and service integrator and management contract, which assists the government in the integration and operation of its services.
    • Service towers are significant IT functional areas, such as infrastructure, applications, security, etc., each possibly managed by a different service provider. The service integrator role is crucial for coordinating and integrating these service towers.
另外 6 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    cartomancyhuman-sciencesmysticismThe sixteenth named (trump or Major Arcana) card in many Tarot decks, usually deemed an ill omen.

  • 10

    cartomancyhuman-sciencesmysticismThe nineteenth Lenormand card, representing structure, bureaucracy, stability and loneliness.

  • 11

    A group of giraffes.

    • Observe a tower of giraffes feeding on acacia leaves and oxpeckers combing giraffes' coats for parasites
    • A tower of giraffes at the Houston Zoo.
  • 12

    artscraftsglassblowingA metal stand used as a pivot to support a punty at a furnace.

  • 13

    historicalA tall fashionable headdress worn in the time of King William III and Queen Anne.

    • Lay trains of amorous intrigues / In towers, and curls, and periwigs.
  • 14

    obsoleteHigh flight; elevation.

    • Nigh in her sight The Bird of Jove, stoopt from his aerie tour, Two Birds of gayest plume before him drove.

towerverb詞源 2

  • 1

    To be very tall; to reach a high height.

    • The office block towered into the sky.
    • The tree will eventually tower taller than any of the others.
  • 2

    To be high or lofty; to soar.

    • My lord protector's hawks do tower so well.
    • When Hope, the eagle that tower’d, could see No cliff beyond him in the sky, His pinions were bent droopingly — And homeward turn’d his soften’d eye.
  • 3

    obsoleteTo soar into.

    • Her state with oary feet; yet oft they quit The dank, and, rising on stiff pennons, tower The mid aerial sky

towernoun詞源 3/ˈtəʊ.ə(ɹ)/

  • 1

    One who tows.

    • But as the tower and towee reached the cross-roads again, another car, negligently driven, came round the corner, hit the Morris, and severed the tow rope, sending the unfortunate car back again into the shop window[…]

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。