southwest

1. N-UNCOUNT Thesouthwest is the direction which is halfway between south and west. 西南[also 'the' N]

...some 500 kilometres to the southwest of Johannesburg. …約翰內(nèi)斯堡西南約五百公裡。

2. N-SING Thesouthwestof a place, country, or region is the part which is toward the southwest. 西南部

...the southwest of France. …法國的西南部。

3. ADV If you go southwest, you travel toward the southwest. 朝西南方[ADV after v]

We took a plane southwest across the Anatolian plateau to Cappadocia. 我們乘飛機(jī)朝西南方,越過安納托利亞高原,飛往卡帕多細(xì)亞。

4. ADV Something that is southwest of a place is positioned to the southwest of it. 在西南方[ADV 'of' n]

It's some 65 miles southwest of Houston. 它位於休斯敦西南方約六十五英裡。

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

...a Labour Day festival in southwest Louisiana. …路易斯安那州西南部的一個(gè)勞動(dòng)節(jié)慶祝活動(dòng)。

6. ADJ A southwest wind is a wind that blows from the southwest. (風(fēng)) 來自西南方的[ADJ n]

Then the southwest wind began to blow. 接著西南風(fēng)開始刮起來了。