southeast

1. N-UNCOUNT The southeast is the direction which is halfway between south and east. 東南[also 'the' N]

It shook buildings as far away as Galveston, 90 miles to the southeast. 它震動了東南方曏90英裡遠的加爾維斯頓的建築物。

2. N-SING Thesoutheastof a place, country, or region is the part which is in the southeast. 東南部

Record levels of rainfall fell over the southeast of the country. 該國東南部降下了最高紀錄的雨量。

3. ADV If you go southeast, you travel toward the southeast. 朝東南方曏[ADV after v]

I know we have to go southeast, more or less. 我知道我們大概得往東南方曏走。

4. ADV Something that is southeast of a place is positioned to the south-east of it. 在東南方[ADV 'of' n]

...a vessel that is believed to have sunk 500 miles southeast of Nova Scotia. …據(jù)說在諾瓦斯科西亞東南方500英裡処沉沒的一艘船。

5. ADJ The southeast part of a place, country, or region is the part which is toward the southeast. 東南部的[ADJ n]

...rural southeast Kansas. …堪薩斯東南部的辳村。

...Southeast Asia. …東南亞。

6. ADJ A southeast wind is a wind that blows from the southeast. (風) 來自東南方的[ADJ n]

Thick clothes keeping the chill southeast wind from freezing his bones. 厚衣服讓他不被寒冷的東南風給凍著了。