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

• Their survival, moving with obsessive carefulness southward on a road, is a journey with Biblical undertones.
  他们为了生存，被迫小心地在一条道路上向南迁移，是一次有圣经意味的旅程。
• A river that rises in North Dakota and flows southward across South Dakota to the Missouri.
  发源于北达科他州，向南流经南达科他州直到密苏里州。
• 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。
• 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。
• Then travel southward to Bath, a city built over the only natural hot springs in the UK.
  接着可以向南行至巴斯，该城建立在英国唯一的一处天热温泉之上。
• 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。
• Of Pacific coast of California and southward.
  产于加利福尼亚的太平洋海岸及以南地区。
• 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。
• 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。
• The shore was badly eaten away on its southward side.
  南侧海岸受到严重侵蚀。