tower是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 塔v. 高耸，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Son of Atreus, check your anger, I implore you; end this quarrel with Achilles, who in the day of battle is a tower of strength to the Achaeans.'
-- These were too old to fight, but they were fluent ora-tors, and sat on the tower like cicales that chirrup delicately from the boughs of some high tree in a wood.
-- Priam then caught sight of Ajax and asked, 'Who is that great and goodly warrior whose head and broad shoulders tower above the rest of the Argives?'
-- Then she went to call Helen, and found her on a high tower with the Trojan women crowding round her.
-- He struck at the projecting part of his helmet and drove the spear into his brow; the point of bronze pierced the bone, and darkness veiled his eyes; headlong as a tower he fell amid the press of the fight, and as he dropped King Elephe-nor, son of Chalcodon and captain of the proud Abantes began dragging him out of reach of the darts that were fall-ing around him, in haste to strip him of his armour.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Presently two oblongs of yellow light appeared through the trees, and the square tower of a church loomed through the gloaming.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was the village club, and the head-man and the watchman and the barber, who knew all the gossip of the village, and old Buldeo, the village hunter, who had a Tower musket, met and smoked.
-- Mowgli, who naturally knew something about what they were talking of, had to cover his face not to show that he was laughing, while Buldeo, the Tower musket across his knees, climbed on from one wonderful story to another, and Mow-gli's shoulders shook.
-- Presently a hand fell on his shoulder, and looking up he saw Buldeo with the Tower musket.
-- The old Tower musket went off with a bang, and a young buffalo bellowed in pain.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He is shut in a tower of brass, and can communicate with his fellows only by signs, and the signs have no common value, so that their sense is vague and uncertain.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- CHAPTER 4Mr and Mrs Quilp resided on Tower Hill; and in her bower on Tower Hill Mrs Quilp was left to pine the absence of her lord, when he quitted her on the business which he had already seen to transact.
-- The dwarf's lodging on Tower hill comprised, besides the needful accommodation for himself and Mrs Quilp, a small sleeping-closet for that lady's mother, who resided with the couple and waged perpetual war with Daniel; of whom, notwithstanding, she stood in no slight dread.
-- This being a season favourable to conversation, and the room being a cool, shady, lazy kind of place, with some plants at the open window shutting out the dust, and interposing pleasantly enough between the tea table within and the old Tower without, it is no wonder that the ladies felt an inclination to talk and linger, especially when there are taken into account the additional inducements of fresh butter, new bread, shrimps, and watercresses.
-- The sun went down and the stars peeped out, the Tower turned from its own proper colours to grey and from grey to black, the room became perfectly dark and the end of the cigar a deep fiery red, but still Mr Quilp went on smoking and drinking in the same position, and staring listlessly out of window with the doglike smile always on his face, save when Mrs Quilp made some involuntary movement of restlessness or fatigue; and then it expanded into a grin of delight.
-- The water and all upon it was in active motion, dancing and buoyant and bubbling up; while the old grey Tower and piles of building on the shore, with many a church-spire shooting up between, looked coldly on, and seemed to disdain their chafing, restless neighbour.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As Nekhludoff was approaching the old general's house the tower clock struck two.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Over the shrubs, before her, were the pale roofs and tower of the old church.
-- And in some strange way, he was a tower of strength to his father.
-- Then he looked at the sky shining beyond the tower of the public baths, and he seemed to get over it all.
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