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. …约翰内斯堡西南约五百公里。

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

...the southwest of France. …法国的西南部。

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. 我们乘飞机朝西南方,越过安纳托利亚高原,飞往卡帕多细亚。

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. 它位于休斯敦西南方约六十五英里。

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个劳动节庆祝活动。

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

Then the southwest wind began to blow. 接着西南风开始刮起来了。