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westward 的 3 个定义
- moving, bearing, facing, or situated toward the west: a westward migration of farm workers.
- Also westwards. toward the west; west: a train moving westward.
- the westward part, direction, or point: The wind had veered to the westward.
westward 近义词
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更多westward例句
- In the 1900s, inmate labor drove the westward expansion of Los Angeles and the construction of the Pacific Coast Highway.
- When American pioneers’ Conestoga wagons rolled westward, they encountered horizon-to-horizon seas of tallgrass prairie that covered more than 170 million acres.
- The westward journey of the mighty Yukon River takes it from its headwaters in Canada’s British Columbia straight across Alaska.
- The system’s swift westward motion would, in most circumstances, work to disrupt the extent to which its low-, mid- and upper-level circulations can remain “coupled,” or linked to one another.
- The book is a wide-ranging history of the idea of the frontier in the American consciousness—from westward expansion to 19th-century imperialism to Cold War internationalism.
- The westward expansion of the Republic created huge opportunities for expansion of land ownership.
- From the American Dust Bowl, thousands of destitute farm families stream westward.
- The fourth wave, from 1892-1924—in which 14 million immigrants journeyed westward—was unprecedented.
- For many years its tight-eye forests blocked the westward trek of pioneers and forced them onto the plains to the north.
- Winds then blew this cloud westward across the continents, over Asia, Europe, and the Americas.
- San Antonio de Bexar lies in a fertile and well-irrigated valley, stretching westward from the river Salado.
- Their territory extended 400 miles on the Atlantic coast, and "from the Atlantic westward to the South sea."
- With only four hundred followers out of the fifteen hundred he had at the beginning, Poindexter fled westward.
- During the night of the 14th, the wind was light from the westward, and we stood off and on to the north of Cassini Island.
- During the ensuing night, having a fresh breeze, we stood first to the westward, and afterwards to the south-east.