One way to hold this word: something is standing beside you like a tower. You tip your head back to find the top, and everything near it suddenly looks small. That is the whole of towering — not a measurement, but the feeling of one thing rising far above its neighbours. English then lets that same height slide off physical things: a person can rise that far above others in their field, and, inside one fixed expression, so can an anger.
From the word’s history
In the source data, towering is listed as the present participle of the verb tower (to rise high), so the adjective is the verb's picture held still: something in the act of rising like a tower.
在這份資料裡，towering 被標為動詞 tower（高高聳立）的現在分詞。所以這個形容詞可以想成把那個動作定格下來：某樣東西正像一座塔那樣拔起。
Packet evidence: Wiktionary entry 'towering' (verb), gloss 'present participle and gerund of tower' (evidence_id wikt:towering:verb:0; source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:1234373264).
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原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
toweringadj/ˈtaʊəɹɪŋ/
- 1
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.
- She is a towering girl with a husky baritone voice and a friendly and flamboyant style.
toweringnoun/ˈtaʊəɹɪŋ/
- 1
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.
- But I am an old hawk at the sport; and wrote her such a cool, deliberate, prudent reply, as brought my bird from the aerial towerings, pop down at my foot like Corporal Trim's hat.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。