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eastward

/eest-werd/US // ˈist wərd //UK // (ˈiːstwəd) //

向东,东向,东进,向东走

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Definitions

adv.副词 adverb
  1. 1
    • : Also eastwards. toward the east.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : moving, bearing, facing, or situated toward the east.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the eastward part, direction, or point.

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Examples

  • It will continue to produce snow into the afternoon while perhaps shifting slightly eastward back inside the Beltway.

  • At the same time, there were a few scattered mid-level clouds from the Chesapeake eastward, but high pressure offshore wiped out any low-level clouds.

  • All these efforts at settlement, though, have been focused on resettlement — on moving Russia’s own citizens eastward to exploit this new land of opportunity.

  • A dry line moves eastward in big leaps during the afternoon as a result of daytime heating.

  • The toxic air has been literally off the charts, but a cold front and thunderstorms pushed in from the Pacific Ocean late last week and blew the smoke eastward.

  • Strong currents and winds, however, mean any debris could be drifting up to 31 miles a day eastward, away from the impact zone.

  • To try to counter the Russian military build-up, Kiev has redeployed more forces eastward.

  • From this point of view, the European mentality is shifting eastward.

  • She was 31 when she married Smith and traveled eastward with him to Romania.

  • She squinted up and down 55th before someone yelled directions, and she walked eastward to find it.

  • But this port (to obviate misunderstanding) is not on the Ocean lying eastward, but on that gulf which I have called French bay.

  • Behind that hill, on the eastward ridge, a great ball is glowing, fiery red.

  • As the evening approached the weather clouded in and threatened us with another squall from the eastward.

  • There is a run of fresh water in the bay to the eastward of the low sandy point, but it was not thought to be a durable stream.

  • Through the pines on the eastward ridge the moon was climbing, and now the white road stretched away before me.