minaret

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Built of white marble that shimmers in both sunlight and moonlight, the Taj Mahal stands on an eighteen-foot-high marble platform which has a delicate minaret on each corner.
泰姬陵用白色大理石建成，在日光和月光下都會閃閃發(fā)光。它矗立在一個18英尺高的大理石上，平臺的四角有四座精美的光塔。
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The explosion occurred in a low income neighborhood, near a wholesale flower market and a major heritage site: the 800-year-old Qutub Minar, the world's tallest brick minaret.
爆炸發(fā)生在一個低收入居民區(qū)，附近有一個花卉批發(fā)市場和重要的古跡--古伯特高塔，它是世界上最高的甎塔。
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The Giralda minaret is the masterpiece of Almohad architecture. It stands next to the cathedral with its five naves; the largest Gothic building in Europe, it houses the tomb of Christopher Columbus.
西拉爾達(dá)大寺院是阿爾默哈德時代的建築傑作，在它旁邊是塞維利亞大教堂，該大教堂共有五個大殿，是歐洲最大的哥特式建築，教堂中存放著尅裡斯托弗·哥倫佈的棺墓。

And,the air traffic control tower suggests a minaret that can be found on a mosque.

One reason, say churchmen, is that a minaret on the skyline might mislead first-time visitors.
ECONOMIST: Plans to build a mosque in Athens are in disarray
For all Tepebasi's dome-and-minaret orthodoxy, the practical merits of reinforced concrete over masonry mean they got barely a pastiche.
ECONOMIST: The architecture of mosques
Indeed, many of the older mosques lost nothing more than the odd minaret.
ECONOMIST: Turkey, flattened and in shock

a tall, thin tower on or near a mosque (= a Muslim holy building) from which Muslims are called to pray