喜樂美語

核心畫面

You can hold a compass in your mind: south points down, west points left, and southwest is the line that runs exactly between them — the corner of the map at the bottom left. Everything else the word does comes from pointing at that one line: the land that lies out that way, the wind that arrives from that way, the side of a building that faces that way.

可以想成手上一個指南針：南在下、西在左，而 southwest 就是正好夾在兩者中間的那條線——地圖上左下角的方向。…更多收起可以想成手上一個指南針：南在下、西在左，而 southwest 就是正好夾在兩者中間的那條線——地圖上左下角的方向。這個字其他所有用法，都是從「指著那條線」長出來的：那個方向的土地、從那個方向吹過來的風、朝著那個方向的那一面。

原始詞典資料8 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

Southwestname

  • 1

    Any of various particular regions named for the cardinal direction in which they lie.

  • 2

    Any of various particular regions named for the cardinal direction in which they lie.

  • 3

    Any of various particular regions named for the cardinal direction in which they lie.

southwestnoun/saʊθˈwɛst/

  • 1

    The intercardinal compass point halfway between south and west; specifically at a bearing of 225°.

    • So this was my future home, I thought![…]Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
    • After a while we returned aboard Belvedere, set a course for the southwest, and sailed once more in frustration back to Tuk.

southwestadj/saʊθˈwɛst/

  • 1

    Of, in or pertaining to the southwest; southwestern.

  • 2

    Situated toward or in the direction of the southwest; southwestward; southwesterly.

    • A southwest course.
  • 3

    Coming from the southwest; southwesterly.

    • A southwest wind.

southwestadv/saʊθˈwɛst/

  • 1

    Towards or in the direction of the southwest; southwestwards.

    • We are travelling southwest at the moment.

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。