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

• 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。
• Charlie walked southward to a bridge.
  查理向南行走来到一座桥。
• 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。
• 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 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。
• 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 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
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。