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a tall narrow building or part of a building, especially of a church or castle 塔；建築物的塔形部分；（尤指教堂或城堡的）塔樓 a bell tower 鐘樓 the Eiffel Tower 埃菲爾鐵塔 a 19-storey office tower 一座19層的辦公大樓 The castle is rectangular in shape, with a tower at each corner. 城堡呈長方形，每個角各有一個塔樓。
Extra ExamplesTopics Buildingsa2, Religion and festivalsa2Armed guards manned the lookout towers. 監視塔上有武裝警衛。 They lived in a ten-storey tower in the town centre. 他們住在市中心的一幢10 層塔樓。 Twin towers flanked the castle gateway. 雙子塔守衛在城堡入口的兩側。 the spot where the towers once stood 曾經屹立着多座塔的地方 The brick tower was built in around four months. 這座磚塔大約在四個月内建成。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- high
- high-rise
- lofty
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- collapse
- fall
- stand
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- block
(often in compounds 常構成複合詞 a tall structure used for sending television or radio signals （電視或無線電信號的）發射塔 a television tower 電視塔
(usually in compounds 通常構成複合詞 a tall piece of furniture used for storing things 高櫃；高架子 a CD tower 光盤櫃
Word OriginOld English torr, reinforced in Middle English by Old French tour, from Latin turris, from Greek.
Idioms
a tower of strength
a person that you can rely on to help, protect and comfort you when you are in trouble （危難時的）可依靠的人，主心骨 He was a tower of strength to his sisters when their father died. 父親死後，他成了姊妹們的支柱。