northwest是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 西北方， 西北部a. 西北的ad. 向西北， 在西北，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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- During the lecture the train had been making good progress, and towards half-past twelve it reached the northwest border of the Great Salt Lake.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Martin had not been so long silk-wrapped that he could not enjoy gobbling salt pork after the northwest wind and the snow.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It should be effected during the night, with a northwest wind of moderate force, and the aeronauts calculated that they would reach General Lee's camp in a few hours.
-- But this northwest wind was not a simple breeze.
-- But this forest was only composed of coniferae, such as deodaras, already recognized by Herbert, and Douglas pine, similar to those which grow on the northwest coast of America, and splendid firs, measuring a hundred and fifty feet in height.
-- The settlers, therefore, went to the plateau, ascending the left bank of the Mercy, and placed themselves on the edge which looked northwest and southeast, that is, above the curiously-shaped rocks which bordered the river.
-- Before anything else could be done it was necessary to make the iron ore, of which the engineer had observed some traces in the northwest part of the island, fit for use by converting it either into iron or into steel.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Part Three CHAPTER XVII MAY OF 1864 CAME a hot dry May that wilted the flowers in the buds and the Yankees under GeneralSherman were in Georgia again, above Dalton, one hundred miles northwest of Atlanta.
-- But the small cloud whichappeared in the northwest four months ago had blown up into a mighty storm and men into a screaming tornado,sweeping away her world, whirling her out of her sheltered life, and dropping her down in the midst of this still,haunted desolation.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They wanted to be taken to a Spanish port, and, if not to Cadiz, into Vigo Bay, situated on the northwest coast of Spain, and which was not blocked.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Taking in my mental vision a radius of five hundred leagues to the westward, I could see under this parallel only the little-known volcanoes of the northwest coast of America.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For some days we had very little wind; it was not till the nineteenth that a brisk gale from the northwest sprang up.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "This is Northwest Chicago," said Drouet.
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