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。
• His room has got a southward balcony.
  他房间有个朝南的阳台。
• Reconnection is most efficient when the IMF has a component that is directed southward& that is, opposite to the northward direction of the earth's magnetic field at the dayside of the magnetosphere.
  在磁层昼侧，若IMF有南向分量，也就是和北向的地球磁场方向相反，则磁力线重连的效率最高。
• 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。
• 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；
• 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 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。
• The shore was badly eaten away on its southward side.
  南侧海岸受到严重侵蚀。
• The street extends southward about three miles.
  这条街向南延伸约三英里。
• 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