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

• 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。
• An example is the southward migration of the Hakkas, originally from the north.
  客家人的南迁就是一个例子。
• 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。
• 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 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。
• His room has got a southward balcony.
  他房间有个朝南的阳台。
• A New York river; flows southward into New York Bay; explored by Henry Hudson in early 1600s.
  纽约的一条河流；向南流入纽约海湾；世纪早期被哈得逊发现。
• I musing late in the autumn day, gazing off southward.
  我在秋日里沉思迟迟，望断南凝汽。
• The shore was badly eaten away on its southward side.
  南侧海岸受到严重侵蚀。