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

• 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。
• 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。
• As they were crawling southward they spotted a small freighter.
  他们正向南徐徐航行时，发现了一条小货船。
• At a later date the cultivation of cocoa spread southward, mainly to Brazil, and at the end of the last century, spread to the equatorial regions of West Africa.
  之后，可可的种植向南扩张。主要扩展到了巴西。上个世纪末，可可种植扩张到了西非赤道区。
• They drove southward
  他们驾车南行。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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 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
• 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。