westwards

英 [ˈwestwədz]

美 [ˈwestwərdz]

adv.  向西; 朝西

高考

BNC.14658

牛津词典

adv.

• 向西；朝西
  towards the west
  1. to turn westwards
     向西转

英英释义

adv

• toward the west
  1. they traveled westward toward the setting sun
  Synonym:westward

双语例句

• Several times that movement is made to the east, and comes into collision with a counter-movement from east westwards.
  这场运动曾多次向东挺进，并与自东向西的逆向运动发生冲突；
• People moved westwards across the European continent for more than seven thousand years and settled in the country.
  七千多年来，人们穿越欧洲大陆向西迁移，到爱尔兰定居。
• The Khwarizmi had a sizeable realm until defeated by the Mongols in1231.Fleeing westwards after this defeat, Kwarizmian troops have since served as mercenaries in the Middle East.
  花剌子模原为强盛大国，后于1231年为蒙古所灭，其军队向西溃退，沦为中亚地区雇佣兵。
• They headed westwards along the motorway.
  他们沿着调整公路向西行。
• Tang's monk: The I is from the east soil since then, big Tang go to westwards day paradise to take through of.
  唐僧：贫僧是从东土大唐而来，去往西天极乐世界取经的。
• They've now advanced westwards along the coastal highway.
  他们现在已经沿着海岸高速公路向西推进。
• The horizontal motion in the north part of Shanxi fault zone is contrary to the trend motion, if taking the Daixian as a center the northern section of the zone moves eastwards and the southern section westwards;
  山西断裂带北段水平运动与趋势运动几乎相反，以代县为中心，北部区段相对向东运动，南部区段相对向西运动。
• The Santa Ana winds, which whip dry air from the desert plateau westwards and downwards into southern California.
  名为圣安娜的大风驱使着来自沙漠高原的干热空气向西然后向南进入南加州。
• The art of paper making reached westwards to Baghdad, Iraq in the 8th century at the height of the Islamic culture.
  回教文化在八世纪时达到全盛时期，造纸技术在此时向西传到伊拉克的巴格达。
• It appears to be linked to the Algerian leadership's poor relations with the Libyan National Transitional Council ( NTC), which in turn betrays its deep-seated fear of instability spreading westwards.
  这也显示出阿尔及利亚与利比亚过渡委员会关系之糟糕，而后者反过来也在把前者所深深惧怕的“不稳定因素”带给前者。