southwest是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. /a. 西南(的) ， 西南部(的)，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When Martin came into the garden, when he saw the old silver on the wicker table and heard the quiet voices, the plague seemed conquered, and he realized that, four thousand miles southwest of the Lizard, he was in England.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Toward noon, however, the sun's rays were extremely scorching, and when evening came, a bar of clouds streaked the southwest horizon—a sure sign of a change in the weather.
-- A south or southwest wind generally puts to flight these little pests.
-- The direction of the current remained unchanged, always running from southwest to northeast.
-- Inaccessible Island is eighteen miles to the southwest and Nightingale Island is ten miles to the southeast, and this completes the little solitary group of islets in the Atlantic Ocean.
-- "This shock took place in 1860, in the Taranaki province on the southwest coast of Ika-na-Mani.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Towards the north, on the contrary, the bay widened, and a more rounded coast appeared, trending from the southwest to the northeast, and terminating in a slender cape.
-- They slanted more towards the southwest and again entered among thick bushes.
-- From the northeast to the southwest the coast was rounded, like the flattened cranium of an animal, rising again, forming a sort of protuberance which did not give any particular shape to this part of the island, of which the center was occupied by the volcano.
-- "Now," said the reporter, "to this peninsula at the southwest of the island, I propose to give the name of Serpentine Peninsula, and that of Reptile-end to the bent tail which terminates it, for it is just like a reptile's tail."
-- Besides, Herbert discovered towards the southwest point of the lagoon a natural warren, a slightly damp meadow, covered with willows and aromatic herbs which scented the air, such as thyme, basil, savory, all the sweet-scented species of the labiated plants, which the rabbits appeared to be particularly fond of.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Geographers have divided it into four parts, and we had to cross the southwest quarter which in the vernacular is called Sudvestr Fjordungr.
-- At a later period in the world's history, a huge and mighty fissure must, reasoning by analogy, have been dug diagonally from the southwest to the northeast of the island, through which by degrees flowed the volcanic crust.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His army was across therailroad to the east and he had cut the railroad running southwest to Alabama.
-- I thought by circling around the center of town, we mightavoid the fire and that drunken mob on Decatur Street and get through to the southwest part of town without anydanger.
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