southward

英 [ˈsaʊθwəd]

美 [ˈsaʊθwərd]

adv.& adj.  向南方（的）

BNC.23409 / COCA.16602

柯林斯词典

• ADV 向南
  Southwardorsouthwardsmeans towards the south.
  1. They drove southward...
     他们驾车南行。
  2. It was a visit that took him to Mogadishu and southwards to Kismayo.
     由于一次访问的缘故，他来到了摩加迪沙，又向南来到基斯马尤。
  3. Southwardis also an adjective.
     
  4. Instead of her normal southward course towards Alexandria and home, she headed west.
     她没有像往常一样选择前往亚历山大和回家的南行线路，而是向西走了。

英英释义

noun

• the cardinal compass point that is at 180 degrees
  Synonym:southdue southS

adj

• moving toward the south
  1. a southbound train
  Synonym:southbound

adv

• toward the south
  1. the ship turned southerly
  Synonym:southerlysouthwards

双语例句

• Charlie walked southward to a bridge.
  查理向南行走来到一座桥。
• The Sahara desert, for example, creeps southward at a rate of thirty miles annually.
  例如，撒哈拉沙漠以每年30英里的速度向南方推移。
• Of Pacific coast from Alaska southward to California.
  产于从阿拉斯加向南到加利福尼亚的太平洋海岸。
• The southward movement in Palaeozoic era from new palaeomagnetic data of North Qilian terrane
  北祁连地体古地磁新数据及古生代地体南向位移事件的发现
• His room has got a southward balcony.
  他房间有个朝南的阳台。
• Western Indian Ocean: Red Sea and Persian Gulf southward to East Africa and islands in the Indian Ocean.
  西印度洋：红海与波斯湾向南至东非与印度洋中的岛屿。
• From Simao we drove southward through the mountains towards jinghong.
  我们的车子从思茅往南开，经过丛山，开往景洪。
• As people moved westward and southward, new movements were added. In the Midwest, dancers created the grand right and left.
  当人们向西部和西部迁徙时，新的动作就加入到舞蹈中。
• Driving southward from Cairo into the valley, I entered a landscape that owed little to the sent era.
  我从开罗驱车南行，进入尼罗河河谷，这里的景色还没有受到多少现代的影响。
• A river that rises in the Catskills in southeastern New York and flows southward along the border of Pennsylvania with New York and New Jersey to northern Delaware where it empties into Delaware bay.
  一条发源于纽约东南的河流，向南绕过宾夕法尼亚洲和纽约以及新泽西州的边缘，最后在特拉华州北部汇入特拉华海湾。