What little investment there was in transport tended to reinforce older north-south links rather than create new east-west ones.

该地区有限的投资也是放在了加强南北交通枢纽上，而不是建造新的西向线路。

The default experience when I log into Twitter isn't to have a bunch of things recommended to me based on what Twitter thinks will capture my attention, instead it's my choice to pick which list I want to read.

当我登录 Twitter 时，默认的体验并不是根据 Twitter 认为会吸引我注意力的西向我推荐一堆西，而是由我自己选择我想看的列表。

What you would see if you were standing on Earth or standing on some other planet that happened to still be around at that time, you would see something that looks like a wall of darkness approaching you.

如果你站在地球上，或者站在当时碰巧还存在的其他星球上，你会看到一些看起来像黑暗之墙的西向你靠近。

Yes, sometimes, the captain replied. These animals have been known to turn on their assailants and capsize their longboats.

是，有时候有险，船长回答，西向攻打它的人转过身来，把他的小艇撞翻。

So, everything running east-west would become an avenue.

因此，所有西向的道路都将更名为大道。

It's a wooden bridge going kind of east to west.

是一座西向的木桥。

It's an east-west highway used by truckers and loggers.

是一条西向的高速公路，供卡车司机和伐木工人使用。

And I would ideally like to have an east-west pipeline.

我理想中希望建设一条西向的输油管道。

Well, I'd certainly like to see more east-west, inside-the-country trade for energy.

当然，我希望能看到更多西向的国内能源贸易，而不是依赖美国的管道将石油和天然气输送到加拿大部。

Their bed was running east and west.

他们的床是西向摆放的。

In most animals, it contains specialized neurons that detect things moving from back behind you forward, so that you can avoid collisions or maybe see something scary, or that’s going to eat you, coming at you.

在大多数动物中，它包含专门的神经元来检测从你身后向前移动的西， 样你可以避免碰撞或可能看到一些可怕的西，或者即将吃掉你的西向你靠近。

I-40 through Tennessee and Arkansas is one of the busiest freight corridors in the United States, so the Mississippi River bridge is a vital east-west link, carrying an average of 50,000 vehicles per day.

I-40穿越田纳西州和阿肯色州， 是美国最繁忙的货运走廊之一，因此密西西比河上的大桥是至关重要的西向通道，每天平均通行5万辆车。

We have so much North-South trade in this country, including on electricity, including oil, including so many other products, but there's not much East-West.

我们国家南北向的贸易往来非常频繁，包括电力、石油以及其他众多产品，但西向的贸易却不多。

That west–east expanse of Eurasia is the largest land distance on Earth.

欧亚大陆西向的广阔区域是地球上最大的陆地距离。

Furthermore, woodland occupied the area north of the marsh, delineated by an east-west thoroughfare intersecting two parallel roads.

此外，林地占据了沼泽以北的区域，由两条平行道路相交的西向大道划定。

CONTRAST THE EASEof east–west diffusion in Eurasia with the difficulties of diffusion along Africa's north–south axis.

对比欧亚大陆西向扩散的容易性与沿非洲南北轴线扩散的困难。

A further likely example is the east–west spread of crops within Africa's wide Sahel zone, but paleobotanists have yet to work out the details.

另一个可能的例子是非洲广阔的萨赫勒地区农作物的西向传播，但古植物学家尚未弄清楚细节。

Its east–west major axis permitted many inventions adopted in one part of Eurasia to spread relatively rapidly to societies at similar latitudes and climates elsewhere in Eurasia.

它的西向主轴使得欧亚大陆某一地区采用的许多发明能够相对较快地传播到欧亚大陆其他地区类似纬度和气候的社会。

In contrast, the major axis of Eurasia is east–west.

相比之下，欧亚大陆的主轴线是西向的。