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TOWER
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Traducere în limba română
tower I. substantiv
1. turn.
2. (fig.) bastion, fortăreaţă;
tower of strength apărător, sprijin.
3. (tehn.) suport, pilon; turelă.
tower II. verb intranzitiv
1. (above) a se înălţa, a se ridica (peste).
2. (fig.) a fi eminent, a domina;
he towers above his contemporaries îi întrece (cu mult) pe contemporanii săi.
Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:
As he himself would have it so, they gave him some food for the wild animals, and led him down to the tower.
(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)
Though decidedly shaken by the fall from the tower upon him, Roderigo defied the old gentleman and refused to stir.
(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)
But indeed and indeed it cannot be, so here I take my leave of you, for yonder square tower amongst the trees upon the right must surely be the church of Minstead, and I may reach it by this path through the woods.
(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The wall which encompassed it is two feet and a half high, and at least eleven inches broad, so that a coach and horses may be driven very safely round it; and it is flanked with strong towers at ten feet distance.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)
She lived three days more, and then died happily, and when she was buried, the two white doves which had brought her food to the tower, and were angels of heaven, followed her body and seated themselves on her grave.
(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)
A tower rose to the ceiling, halfway up appeared a window with a lamp burning in it, and behind the white curtain appeared Zara in a lovely blue and silver dress, waiting for Roderigo.
(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)
Then he went on still farther, and all was so still that he could hear every breath he drew; till at last he came to the old tower, and opened the door of the little room in which Briar Rose was; and there she lay, fast asleep on a couch by the window.
(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)
He went to the tower in which his mother was confined, and as it was so high, he wished for a ladder which would reach up to the very top. Then he mounted up and looked inside, and cried: Beloved mother, Lady Queen, are you still alive, or are you dead?
(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)
When the king saw the blood on her apron, he believed this, fell into such a passion that he ordered a high tower to be built, in which neither sun nor moon could be seen and had his wife put into it, and walled up.
(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)
Yes, said the lord of the castle, if you will pass the night down there in the old tower, go thither; but I warn you, it is at the peril of your life, for it is full of wild dogs, which bark and howl without stopping, and at certain hours a man has to be given to them, whom they at once devour.
(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)
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