towering
名词 n.
动词 v.
形容词 adj.
英文释义
名词 n.
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The act or condition of being high above others.
— Gaiety seldom fails to give some pain; the hearers either strain their faculties to accompany its towerings, or are left behind in envy or despair.
动词 v.
- present participle and gerund of tower
形容词 adj.
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Very tall or high and dwarfing anything around it.
— So this was my future home, I thought![…]Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
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