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词汇 eastward
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Definition of eastward in English:

eastward

adjective ˈiːstwədˈis(t)wərd
  • Lying towards, near, or facing the east.

    they followed an eastward course

    他们沿着一条向东的路线行进。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Leaders of the former communist countries awaiting EU membership cheered Ireland's decision to endorse the EU's eastward expansion.
    • The eastward side of the hurricane is causing significant flooding today across a big swathe of Georgia.
    • For a few months each year the winds blow easterly, and in those months the ancient Polynesians made eastward voyages of exploration.
    • By cutting patches in the path of the beetles' eastward spread, loggers hope to stall their expansion.
    • Ten minutes climbing connects you with our outward and eastward route on what a local thought was Roman road.
    • Thus Hellenism in its eastward course and Buddhisn in its westward march came in direct contact in Gandhara art and worked out artistic sculptures and other art forms.
    • The developing El Nino continues its eastward trek in the Pacific Ocean.
    • Crews worked on a firebreak in a nearby canyon to try to cut off an eastward route for the fire.
    • Most structures can be explained by eastward retreat of the Pacific and Philippine slabs and southward retreat of the Sunda slab.
    • Distance impinged on it from the river, whose waters flowed from the eastward mountains ultimately, as the town always was more or less aware, to the sea, to the world.
    • Voters in Hungary have agreed to be part of the historic eastward expansion of the European Union, strongly endorsing economic unification with their more developed neighbours to the west.
    • Over that time frame, the European Union's eastward expansion will place Berlin at the heart of the continent.
    • The Great Plains, occupied by the Dakotas, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas, are cut through by the eastward flows and have become a great prairie supporting cattle ranching and wheat cultivation.
    • On the other side, in East Africa, the eastward pressure of the Mid-Atlantic ridge, combined with the opposite forces generated by the impact of India, created enormous stresses.
    • The sand forming these two shoals would ordinarily have been deposited on the East Beach during its eastward drift.
    • The winds associated with this broader wake spawn a narrow eastward countercurrent that draws warm water from west to east.
    • The stench drifts whenever a strong eastward wind is blowing.
    • Along the storms' eastward track, avalanches killed two people on Saturday in Utah, authorities said.
    • This eastward road ends at a small peaceful bay, but from this village the road turns south across the Northern Mountain Range through a rainforest.
    • The last four hours of paddling we held an eastward course from Orcas to the mainland.
adverb ˈiːstwədˈis(t)wərd
  • Towards the east.

    向东

    limestone plateaux extend eastward towards the river

    灰岩高原朝着河流向东延伸。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • So when El Niño shifts the clouds eastward, the pattern of crests and troughs in the atmosphere also shifts.
    • However, the general circulation in the Santa Barbara Channel tends to be cyclonic, which often advects cool surface waters eastward along the northern coasts of the Channel Islands.
    • This compositional change is associated with the incision of the rivers that flowed eastwards from the West Midlands.
    • The Antarctic Circumpolar Current, sometimes called the West Wind Drift, circles eastward around Antarctica.
    • The road snakes eastward and upward and vanishes, as great cycling roads always do, into the trees.
    • In the lower elevation of Pinto Basin, Joshua Tree's creosote flats sprawl eastward and forever toward Arizona.
    • The Gorband, a shallow stream, flows eastward past dozens of small villages with no electricity or running water.
    • Walking eastwards will take you back to the pier.
    • A web of rivers flowed eastwards from the Drakensberg mountains to the sea.
    • Overtaken by events, he began pressing for guarantees that NATO would not absorb East Germany or expand eastwards.
    • Another would extend eastwards through Afghanistan and Pakistan and terminate near the Indian border.
    • The coastline is mostly flat, but inland and eastward the topography becomes hilly, with more forests and lakes.
    • It was 4am when we pulled out of the harbour and headed eastwards towards our first dive site.
    • The hospital was endowed with meadow-land stretching eastwards to the river.
    • I have the misfortune of catching a number 21 service heading eastwards at least four times a month, at the exact time when all the schools are emptying.
    • Geometry dominates, for the axial symmetry of the Barry building is extended eastwards.
    • The coastline turns sharply eastward just north of the city, however, making a direct hit on Long Island much more likely.
    • She swam eastward a dozen strokes and stood shivering on the rocky bottom, waiting for Wolf to surface.
    • I think at this point she turned around and headed eastwards, towards home, towards safety.
    • Another storm system is blowing eastward tonight.
    Synonyms
    to the east, eastward, eastwards, eastwardly
noun ˈiːstwədˈis(t)wərd
the eastward
  • The direction or region towards the east.

    朝东的方向 (或地区)

    the wind has come round to the eastward

    风向已转为由西向东。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Burroughs's specter also told Ann Jr. that he had bewitched a great many soldiers to death at the eastward, when Sir Edmon was there.
    • He was riding away to the eastward, as fast as he could make his horse go.
    • To the eastward of the deep water berths, there is about half a mile of docks used by small oversea traffic, and the accommodation provides for vessels of 16 feet of water and 1,000 tons cargo.
    • What had happened ‘at the eastward,’ and what valence did those events retain in Salem?

Derivatives

  • eastwardly

  • adverb
    • This was consistent with the left-drifting, receding UFOs in the video which indicated the objects were therefore drifting north eastwardly as expected.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • ‘Presently I heard a voice, saying, ‘Son of the Republic, look and learn!’ while at the same time my visitor extended her arm and forefinger eastwardly.
      • He stole a horse and left the town to relocate seemingly at random to different towns along a eastwardly course.
      • Burgenland, Austria's most eastwardly and poorest state, suffers from high unemployment.

Rhymes

northeastward, southeastward

Definition of eastward in US English:

eastward

adjectiveˈis(t)wərdˈēs(t)wərd
  • In an easterly direction.

    向东的

    they followed an eastward course

    他们沿着一条向东的路线行进。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The winds associated with this broader wake spawn a narrow eastward countercurrent that draws warm water from west to east.
    • By cutting patches in the path of the beetles' eastward spread, loggers hope to stall their expansion.
    • The developing El Nino continues its eastward trek in the Pacific Ocean.
    • Along the storms' eastward track, avalanches killed two people on Saturday in Utah, authorities said.
    • This eastward road ends at a small peaceful bay, but from this village the road turns south across the Northern Mountain Range through a rainforest.
    • For a few months each year the winds blow easterly, and in those months the ancient Polynesians made eastward voyages of exploration.
    • The sand forming these two shoals would ordinarily have been deposited on the East Beach during its eastward drift.
    • On the other side, in East Africa, the eastward pressure of the Mid-Atlantic ridge, combined with the opposite forces generated by the impact of India, created enormous stresses.
    • Distance impinged on it from the river, whose waters flowed from the eastward mountains ultimately, as the town always was more or less aware, to the sea, to the world.
    • The last four hours of paddling we held an eastward course from Orcas to the mainland.
    • Over that time frame, the European Union's eastward expansion will place Berlin at the heart of the continent.
    • The stench drifts whenever a strong eastward wind is blowing.
    • Ten minutes climbing connects you with our outward and eastward route on what a local thought was Roman road.
    • Most structures can be explained by eastward retreat of the Pacific and Philippine slabs and southward retreat of the Sunda slab.
    • Leaders of the former communist countries awaiting EU membership cheered Ireland's decision to endorse the EU's eastward expansion.
    • The eastward side of the hurricane is causing significant flooding today across a big swathe of Georgia.
    • Thus Hellenism in its eastward course and Buddhisn in its westward march came in direct contact in Gandhara art and worked out artistic sculptures and other art forms.
    • Crews worked on a firebreak in a nearby canyon to try to cut off an eastward route for the fire.
    • Voters in Hungary have agreed to be part of the historic eastward expansion of the European Union, strongly endorsing economic unification with their more developed neighbours to the west.
    • The Great Plains, occupied by the Dakotas, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas, are cut through by the eastward flows and have become a great prairie supporting cattle ranching and wheat cultivation.
adverbˈis(t)wərdˈēs(t)wərd
  • Toward the east.

    向东

    the bus rattled its way eastward
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Walking eastwards will take you back to the pier.
    • The hospital was endowed with meadow-land stretching eastwards to the river.
    • It was 4am when we pulled out of the harbour and headed eastwards towards our first dive site.
    • So when El Niño shifts the clouds eastward, the pattern of crests and troughs in the atmosphere also shifts.
    • The coastline is mostly flat, but inland and eastward the topography becomes hilly, with more forests and lakes.
    • I have the misfortune of catching a number 21 service heading eastwards at least four times a month, at the exact time when all the schools are emptying.
    • In the lower elevation of Pinto Basin, Joshua Tree's creosote flats sprawl eastward and forever toward Arizona.
    • She swam eastward a dozen strokes and stood shivering on the rocky bottom, waiting for Wolf to surface.
    • I think at this point she turned around and headed eastwards, towards home, towards safety.
    • A web of rivers flowed eastwards from the Drakensberg mountains to the sea.
    • The coastline turns sharply eastward just north of the city, however, making a direct hit on Long Island much more likely.
    • Overtaken by events, he began pressing for guarantees that NATO would not absorb East Germany or expand eastwards.
    • Another would extend eastwards through Afghanistan and Pakistan and terminate near the Indian border.
    • Geometry dominates, for the axial symmetry of the Barry building is extended eastwards.
    • The road snakes eastward and upward and vanishes, as great cycling roads always do, into the trees.
    • Another storm system is blowing eastward tonight.
    • The Antarctic Circumpolar Current, sometimes called the West Wind Drift, circles eastward around Antarctica.
    • However, the general circulation in the Santa Barbara Channel tends to be cyclonic, which often advects cool surface waters eastward along the northern coasts of the Channel Islands.
    • The Gorband, a shallow stream, flows eastward past dozens of small villages with no electricity or running water.
    • This compositional change is associated with the incision of the rivers that flowed eastwards from the West Midlands.
    Synonyms
    to the east, eastward, eastwards, eastwardly
nounˈis(t)wərdˈēs(t)wərd
the eastward
  • The direction or region toward the east.

    朝东的方向 (或地区)

    a squall came from the eastward
    Example sentencesExamples
    • What had happened ‘at the eastward,’ and what valence did those events retain in Salem?
    • To the eastward of the deep water berths, there is about half a mile of docks used by small oversea traffic, and the accommodation provides for vessels of 16 feet of water and 1,000 tons cargo.
    • He was riding away to the eastward, as fast as he could make his horse go.
    • Burroughs's specter also told Ann Jr. that he had bewitched a great many soldiers to death at the eastward, when Sir Edmon was there.
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