Word forms: plural, 3rd person singular present tense looms, present participle looming, past tense, past participle loomed
1VERB (龐然大物或形狀模糊之物)聳現,出現 If something looms over you, it appears as a large or unclear shape, often in a frightening way. (龐然大物或形狀模糊之物)聳現,出現 [Also VERB]
Vincent loomed over me, as pale and grey as a tombstone. [VERB prep./adv.]
文森特赫然聳現在我面前,面色灰白得像一塊墓碑。
...the bleak mountains that loomed out of the blackness and towered around us. [VERB prep./adv.]
3PHRASE [VERB inflects](尤指問題或憂慮)揮之不去,萦繞心中,顯得突出 If something, especially a problem or worry looms large, it occupies a lot of your thoughts and seems important. (尤指問題或憂慮)揮之不去,萦繞心中,顯得突出
...the terrible problem of armed crime now looming large in our society.
已日漸成爲我們當今社會一塊心病的嚴重的持械犯罪問題
As such tensions increase, they loom larger in Russia's domestic politics.
這種緊張關系的不斷加劇使其在俄羅斯國内政治中愈發凸顯。
4N-COUNT 織機;織布機 A loom is a machine that is used for weaving thread into cloth. 織機;織布機