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southward

/south-werd; Nautical suhth-erd/US // ˈsaʊθ wərd; Nautical ˈsʌð ərd //UK // (ˈsaʊθwəd, nautical ˈsʌðəd) //

向南,南向,南下,向南走

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : moving, bearing, facing, or situated toward the south.
    • : coming from the south, as a wind.
adv.副词 adverb
  1. 1
    • : Also southwards. toward the south; south.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the southward part, direction, or point.

Examples

  • Trailing their prey, carnivorous dinosaurs followed, and as wintry weather arrived, both herbivores and carnivores followed their food southward again.

  • For all that has changed in American life during this period, this pattern has proved remarkably durable, as population and resources have consistently flowed southward and westward.

  • In 1921, some 10,000 workers marched southward from the West Virginia state capital of Charleston to anti-union counties in an effort to protest coal companies’ complete control of the territory.

  • That’s a configuration that tends to force a developing coastal storm south and east of Washington and allows cold air from the Canadian high pressure to drain southward into our region.

  • Whales singing in the day could also be swimming through a given region without starting their southward migration.

  • Their finest thinkers and ablest warriors migrated southward.

  • Sub-freezing air will also extend southward across the border of Texas into Mexico.

  • The result will be an epic cold air outbreak, with much of the coldness being channeled southward from Greenland.

  • But as industry migrated southward after the war, Southern New Dealers like Strom Thurmond changed their economic philosophy.

  • Our talk ranged from the Panhandle to the Canada line, while our horses jogged steadily southward.

  • In case any reader should hastily exclaim, “What a ridiculous question; there can be only one southward!”

  • Finally he shook himself free from the dreamy spell of the place, and turned his face southward again.

  • The ground near the house was not so very rough and the slope southward was a gentle one.

  • The Dick was apprized by us of the danger in time, and succeeded in clearing the land by tacking to the southward.