1.south用作名词时,其基本意思是“南,南方,南面”,没有复数形式,前面常加定冠词the,当强调方向时首字母s一般大写。
2.south的首字母大写时,还可表示“…的南部”,指位于某一特定的方位点以南的地区或国家。
3.south与介词in连用时表示“在所说范围内的南部”,与on连用时表示“在…南面(相连)”,与to连用时表示“在…南面(相隔)”。

I'm lost, which direction is South?我迷失方向了,哪个方向是南?
The house faces towards the south.这屋子朝南。
Guangdong Province is in the south of China.广东省在中国的南部。
Viet Nam is on the south of China.越南在中国的南面。
Jiangsu is bounded on the south by Zhejiang.江苏南接浙江。
Hainan island is to the south of Guangdong.海南岛在广东南边。
Panama lies to the south of the U.S.A.巴拿马在美国以南。
Africa lies to the south of Europe.非洲位于欧洲以南。
The airport is a few kilometres to the south of London.机场在伦敦以南数公里处。
Lincoln said that it was not right for the South to break away from the Union.林肯说南方从合众国分裂出去是不对的。
The South will have sunny periods.南部会有阳光充足的时期。

他住在华南。
［误］  He lives in the South of China.
［正］  He lives in South of China.
［析］  South的首字母大写表示“某一特定的方位点以南的地区或国家”,当表示“在某地的南部”时,用in South of,South前不用加定冠词the。

1.south 用作形容词,意思是“南的,南方的”,首字母可大写,在句中常用作定语。
2.south还可作“来自南方的”解。
3.south作为表示方位的词一般不用于比较级和最高级,如确需进行比较,可用more, less, nearly来修饰。

用作定语
▲～+n.
She works on the south coast.她在南部沿海地区工作。
She works on the south bank.她在南岸工作。
The south wind blows warm air across the country.南风把温暖的空气吹遍全国。
The south side of the building gets a lot of sun.建筑物的南面阳光充足。
用作表语
▲S+be+～+prep.-phrase
Mexico and the United States are in North America, the former lies south of the latter.墨西哥和美国在北美,前者位于后者以南。
When my daughter was working in the North, we went to visit her, but she came south in a bus and met us halfway, at a little town where the two roads join.我女儿在北方工作时,我们去看她,她却乘一辆公共汽车南下了,半路上在一个两条公路相交的小镇与我们相遇了。

south, southern
参见southern条。

1.south用作副词时,意思是“向南方,在南方”。
2.south用作副词,没有比较级和最高级,多修饰动态动词,位于所修饰的词语之后。

down south
往南,南下,在南方 to or in the south
We're planning to move down south.我们计划迁居南方。
They used to live in Scotland but they moved down south.他们以前住在苏格兰,后来移居南方了。

go south with
偷走 steal away
She went south with a vase.她偷走一个花瓶。

用作状语
Many birds fly south in the winter.在冬季许多鸟都飞到南方。
The wind blows south.刮南风。
The window faces south.这扇窗户朝南。
The ship is steering south.这船正向南行驶。
The swallows go south in the winter.燕子在冬天南飞。

下面两句意思不同:
The wind blows south.
刮南风。
The wind blows to the south.
刮北风。

［词源］  ＜古英语suth (南)