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tower block

/tou-er/US // ˈtaʊ ər //

塔楼,高楼大厦,塔楼大厦,塔楼建筑

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Chiefly British.

    • : a high-rise building.

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Examples

  • I have to climb my tower block by stairs, my refrigerator has turned off, I cannot take online classes, cannot study, no water, no electricity and no gas at home.

  • Each year, China builds about 15 million new homes—over five times those in America and Europe combined—yet a quarter of the current stock already lies empty, with forests of unoccupied tower blocks ringing many second and third-tier cities.

  • Today, a 12-story tower block stands directly atop its point of impact.

  • Elsewhere, a railway on stilts circles a group of multicolored tower blocks.

  • Church bells pealed from St. Catherine of Siena parish one block away.

  • During his trek, Brinsley twice passed within a block of a police stationhouse and he almost certainly saw cops along the way.

  • Block 3F is slated for release in 2019, but who knows how much that will slip?

  • After walking block after block holding that container, he had suddenly discarded it and was now clutching a gun.

  • If someone wants to ensure a direct and secure connection, no entity, whether a hotel or otherwise, should be able to block it.

  • The Spanish troops did not care to venture past a block of buildings in which were the offices and stores of a British firm.

  • The tower has four clock faces, pinnacles at the angles, and a steep slate roof and is 120 feet high.

  • At the Flagstaff Tower the 74th and the remainder of the 38th suddenly told their officers that they would obey them no longer.

  • The height of the tower from the level of the street is 105 feet, the slated towers over the lateral pediments being smaller.

  • John Wilkes released from the tower by the memorable sentence of chief justice Pratt.