- 1迎風的、迎風面（相對於背風 leeward 背風面）
Windward means facing the direction the wind is coming from. If the wind is blowing out of the north, then the north side of your house is the windward side — the side that gets hit. Its opposite is 'leeward' (often said 'loo-ard' by sailors), the side. The word can work as an adjective ('the windward wall'), an adverb ('we sailed windward'), or a noun ('to windward of the island'). It came out of sailing, where knowing which side the wind strikes decides everything, and it is still mainly a sailing and weather word — a farmer might plant a hedge on the windward side of a field, a might shelter on the leeward side of a rock, and use it constantly to explain rain: the windward slope of a mountain is wet because damp air is pushed up it, and the leeward side is dry. That is exactly why it appears in geography lessons about the 迎風面. There is a fixed old phrase too — 'to keep to windward of' someone, meaning to stay clear of trouble — but it is rare now and you can safely skip it. You will also see it in place names, like the Windward Islands in the Caribbean.
組成wind + -ward. The ending '-ward' is an old English piece meaning 'turned toward, facing that way' — the same one in toward, forward, backward, homeward. So: turned toward the wind.
原始詞典資料6 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
windwardadj/ˈwɪndwə(ɹ)d/
- 1
Towards the wind, or the direction from which the wind is blowing.
- The windward boat must give way to the leeward boat.
- 2
On the side exposed to the wind.
- the windward bedroom
- 3
In a position of advantage or superiority.
- […] but while they own what G. Fox hath written, and that he writ it with a perfect spirit: I say untill they do make some Recantation or Retractation: or shew the Reasons why they doe not, H. Norton who keeps more plainly to his Principles is to windward of them, and the Foxians do but strip themselves naked to be more derided and scorned as the more notorious Juglers and Dissemblers .
windwardadv/ˈwɪndwə(ɹ)d/
- 1
In a direction from which the wind blows, against or towards the wind.
- We beat our way windward.
windwardnoun/ˈwɪndwə(ɹ)d/
- 1
The direction from which the wind blows.
- A vessel has the weather gage of another when she is to windward of her. A weatherly ship is one that works well to windward, making but little leeway.
- To shield our tent from hurricane-force winds, we built a wall of snow blocks to windward, cutting the blocks with one of the catamaran's paddles.
- 2
The side receiving the wind's force.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。