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

• 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 some given point, a Southward path may be steeper than an Eastward path.
  从给定的几点来看，向南的那条路径比向东那条更陡些。
• 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。
• The Lao are descended from the Tai people who began migrating southward from China in the first millennium AD.
  老族是在公元前千年左右从中国向南迁徙而来的泰族（Tai）人的后代。
• China's decision to reject Coca-Cola's acquisition of juice-maker China Huiyuan Juice Group is rippling southward toward Australia.
  编辑点评：中国商务部发布公告，以“对竞争产生不利影响”为由，正式否决了可口可乐公司收购中国汇源果汁集团有限公司的申请。
• The IMF was oriented southward for many hours during the Bastille Day storm.
  巴士底日太空风暴发生期间，IMF有好几个小时都是指向南方的。
• 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。
• His body has been become the east, the west, north quadrupole composes in reply southward, grand high mountains;
  他的身体变成了东、西、南、北四极和雄伟的三山五岳；
• I musing late in the autumn day, gazing off southward.
  我在秋日里沉思迟迟，望断南凝汽。
• Found from Long Island southward.
  产于从长岛往南的水域。