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 westward ['westwәd]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 朝西的方向

a. 向西的

ad. 向西的




    westward
    [ noun ]
    1. the cardinal compass point that is a 270 degrees

    2. <noun.linkdef>
    [ adv ]
    1. toward the west

    2. <adv.all>
      they traveled westward toward the setting sun
    [ adj ]
    1. moving toward the west

    2. <adj.all>
      westbound pioneers


    Westward \West"ward\, Westwards \West"wards\, adv. [AS.
    westweard. See {West}, and {-ward}. ]
    Toward the west; as, to ride or sail westward.

    Westward the course of empire takes its way.
    --Berkeley.


    Westward \West"ward\, a.
    Lying toward the west.

    Yond same star that's westward from the pole. --Shak.


    Westward \West"ward\, n.
    The western region or countries; the west.

    1. They said only 210 East Germans registered overnight with authorities at a refugee camp in Hungary coordinating the exodus westward.
    2. The main entry point for tunnelling will be at Black Rock to the east of Brighton and will be extended westward to Hove.
    3. Morris said he expected some Cherokees to join the wagon train as it moved further westward.
    4. Their numbers reached into the millions before pioneers began forging westward and found them to be easy prey, dipping to a historical low near 1,000 head in 1889, Duvall said.
    5. Uleki's westward movement lessened the threat of damaging winds for Oahu, where Honolulu is located, Kauai and Niihau, Lee said.
    6. Starting at the easternmost part of the lake, boats dragging special absorbent materials began to sweep the lake, soaking up as much of the oil as possible and pushing what remained westward.
    7. East German public transport was so overwhelmed with the westward travelers that the federal Transport Ministry issued an urgent appeal to citizens to avoid using the rail system.
    8. The book, the story of the Joad family and their journey westward during the Great Depression, is known everywhere.
    9. A combination of the westward flow of Europeans and a huge migration from Third World countries has increased racial and ethnic tensions, created severe housing shortages and caused social welfare costs to balloon.
    10. Fire ants arrived in Florida by boat from South America and have been slowly moving northward and westward.
    11. The conflict has claimed hundreds of thousands of lives, driven nearly a Eritrean million refugees westward into neighboring Sudan and compounded the suffering from the region's devastating famine.
    12. Soviet and American peace walkers journeyed westward across Iowa today after spending nearly a week in the eastern part of the state and celebrating the Fourth of July with a parade and cookout.
    13. Donald Trump, the millionaire from Queens, is being wooed westward.
    14. This year Mr Jacobs was looking for something Spanish, since in Austria 1492 is being remembered for Spain's eastward rather than its westward expansion.
    15. East Germany is the latest to join the chorus of East European critics of the reform-minded Hungarians, its ire raised by Budapest's decision to open a westward escape route for thousands of East Germans.
    16. Bush spent part of the flight westward reading the AIDS commission's report and then went to the rear cabin to outline his views to reporters.
    17. According to the reports, most protesters had marched westward by midafternoon and were joined by large crowds from working-class neighborhoods.
    18. But Czechoslovakia has said it will not allow the same kind of mass migration westward.
    19. Gusty winds and heavy rains were expected along Mexico's Gulf coast well in advance of the westward moving storm, said hurricane specialist Bob Case.
    20. Krenz has promised to introduce wide-ranging political and economic reforms, but the pledge has so far not ended widespread street protests and the westward flight of his people.
    21. It was expected to strengthen and move westward Sunday.
    22. The eastern weather satellite that provides cloud pictures seen in newspapers and on television is being shifted westward to help cover ground that had been covered by a satellite that died from old age.
    23. On this date: In 1492, a contract was signed between Christopher Columbus and Spain to seek a westward ocean passage to Asia.
    24. More important, this mass migration westward turned into an emotional get-together of the Germans, not just for those who had not seen their relatives for many years, but for everybody.
    25. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., the NASA center responsible for Voyager, said the plumes from the geyser rise vertically about five miles, then form a cloud that drifts 90 miles westward in Triton's winds.
    26. Also today, Tropical Storm Dean developed into the second hurricane of the Atlantic season, bearing 78 mph winds it surged westward toward the Caribbean.
    27. The flood of thousands of East Germans westward played a big part in prompting reforms that ended Communist rule in East Germany.
    28. THE BAHAMAS: Islanders boarded up homes and stocked up on supplies as Hugo moved westward.
    29. Ever since the British Celts arrived in the 5th century, the French influence has been clawing and creeping westward. But here, at a safe distance from Paris, the maestros perform a friendly Celtic combination, stopping only occasionally to down a demi.
    30. For one thing, Austria's ambitions mainly turn it westward.
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