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词汇 southwest
释义 southwest
noun[ U ]
uk /ˌsaʊθˈwest/ us /ˌsaʊθˈwest/(written abbreviationSW)
B1
the direction that is between south and west: 西南,西南方
We live in the southwest of Scotland.我们生活在苏格兰西南部。
 the Southwest
the area in the southwest of England, the US, or another country: (英国、美国或其他国家的)西南部
Have you been to Cornwall? It's in the Southwest.你去过康沃尔吗?它在西南部。
We have a house in the southwest of France.
Troops are moving towards the southwest of the country.
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northerner
northwest
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Points of the compass
southwest
adjective, adverb
uk /ˌsaʊθˈwest/ us /ˌsaʊθˈwest/(written abbreviationSW)
B1
in or towards the southwest: 西南(的),在西南(的);朝西南(的)
I come from the southwest part of the island.我来自那个岛的西南部。
They moved southwest in an attempt to find better land.他们向西南迁移,希望能找到更好的土地。
 southwest wind
a wind that comes from the southwest西南风
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southwest | American Dictionary


southwest
noun[ U ]
us/ˌsɑʊθˈwest/(abbreviationS.W.)
the direction between south and west, or the part of an area or country that is in this direction:
He’s currently living in the Southwest.

southwestern


adjective[ not gradable ]us/ˌsɑʊθˈwes·tərn/(abbreviationS.W.)
She grew up in southwestern Ohio.
southwest
adjective, adverb[ not gradable ]
us/ˌsɑʊθˈwest/(abbreviationS.W.)
in, forming, or toward the southwest part of something:
The district is in the southwest corner of the state.
We drove southwest.

Examples of southwest


southwest
Much of the remaining forest land in the southwest was protected, but this did not prevent a scramble to exploit it.
Points in the remaining two quadrants (northeast and southwest) may or may not be desirable, depending on decision makers1 values and objectives.
To the southwest and west it is bounded by ductile-to-brittle shear belts and brittle faults.
This territory may extend to the southwest, but other practices leaving ephemeral archaeological traces may also have occurred here.
First southwest assessment exploring effect of deflector plane.
The present island shape is the result of two giant landslides leaving large amphitheatres in the northwest and southwest of the island.
Ultramylonites at this higheststrained zone show mineral-elongation lineations that plunge to the southwest.
In the southwest, where most local opium was produced, many minority groups were led by their own chiefs.
At the southwest corner of the building, a west-running alignment may have framed par t of an additional room.
This axial fluvial system flowed generally to the south, and ultimately merged with another confined fluvial system incised into the basement carbonates to the southwest.
For both viruses, was highest in the northeastern part of the country and declined towards the southwest.
By the time you have reached the southwest end of a line you have completely forgotten when the northeast looked like.
In general, both units dip towards the southwest.
The geometry of the mylonite zone and the observed shear directions change from north to southwest.
Whether the co-occurrence of verbal -s with periphrastic do is a widespread or idiosyncratic feature of cer tain dialects of the southwest remains a question.
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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