Much to my surprise, he went back down south and returned to European seas.

令我深感意外的是，他调头向南朝欧洲海开去。

For about ten or twelve days we sailed on south, down the coast of Africa.

沿着非洲海岸我们朝南航行了大约10天至12天。

Severe flooding in the Midwest sent runoff from farms south down the Mississippi River and into the Gulf of Mexico.

中西部的严重洪水将农场的径流从南部的密西西比河注入墨西哥湾。

He would make a boat and go on down the river to some settlement farther south.

他会造一条船，顺流而下，到达更南边的某个定居点。

This explains how we find north, but Ethan points out that the decision to call north 'up' and south 'down' is arbitrary – decided by random chance, not based on any particular reason.

这就解释了我们是如何找到北方的，但伊森指出，将北方称为“上”，将南方称为“下”是人为规定的，即随机规定的，没有什么特定的原因。

Old maps made by whalers show sea ice extent in August of 1938. It pushes south down the coast of Greenland, creating an ideal environment for whale species like narwhal and other Arctic marine life.

捕鲸者绘制的旧地图显示了 1938 年 8 月的海冰范围。 它向南推向格陵兰岛海岸，为独角鲸和其他北极海洋生物等鲸鱼物种创造了理想的环境。

So, yeah, but because I was working for the most part, I didn't feel like it was too hard, and then during the holidays, I would come back down south to my family, so I wasn't there too much during downtimes.

不过因为我大部分时间都在工作，所以我感觉其实不是那么难，一般假期我会回南部去和家人一起过，所以休假期间我在那里的时间不太多。