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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Small dark geese that breed in the north and migrate southward.
  深色小鹅，北方繁殖后向南方迁移。
• 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 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。