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westward

/west-werd/US // ˈwɛst wərd //UK // (ˈwɛstwəd) //

向西,向西走,向西行驶,向西行

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : moving, bearing, facing, or situated toward the west: a westward migration of farm workers.
adv.副词 adverb
  1. 1
    • : Also westwards. toward the west; west: a train moving westward.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the westward part, direction, or point: The wind had veered to the westward.

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Examples

  • 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.