southwestward

1. From here the boundary turns southwestward.
   边界由此折向西南。
2. It starts off selling high volumes ( red) and making big profits and moves in a sickly southwestward direction as its margins and revenues shrink, its volumes shift from red to yellow and its profits tighten into a narrow cone.
   刚开始销量很高（红色），利润也非常丰厚，但随着营运利润率和收益的下降，蛇形图开始不情愿地弯向左下角。
3. A river in Alabama that flows southwestward to become a tributary of the mobile river.
   阿拉巴马州内的一条河流，南流形成木比耳河的一条支流。
4. The results show that in the case of no wind the oil film moves southwestward along with the tidal current, its area increases and thickness decreases, and the port is not polluted during ebb tide;
   计算结果表明，在静风情况下，落潮期间油膜随落潮流向西南方向漂移，面积扩大，厚度减小，港区未受油污的影响；
5. The intensified western boundary current of the cyclonic gyre, called the "Dongsha Current" in this paper, flows southwestward next to the shelf south of China.
   三者皆增强了南海北部的海盆尺度气旋式环流，其强化的西南向西边界流靠近东沙群岛，建议称为“东沙海流”。
6. There was a southwestward movement of people towards the safety of the mountains.
   人们向西南面山的安全地带行进。
7. A new study suggests that a blast akin to one that devastated Iceland in the1780s would waft noxious gases southwestward and kill tens of thousands of people in Europe.
   一项新的研究表明：类似于十八世纪八十年代摧毁冰岛的火山爆发，会把有毒的气体吹向西南方，将欧洲成千上万的人置于死地。
8. Precipitation, convection, and west wind begin to retreat southwestward at pentad 60 ( late October).
   在60候（10月末）左右开始向西向南撤退。

noun

1. the compass point midway between south and west

   Synonym:    southwestsou'-westSW

adj

1. toward the southwest

adv

1. in a southwestward direction

   Synonym:    southwestwardly