向东北

They voyaged northeast for several days.

他们向东航行。

Lying as it does in the deep waters of the Western Pacific, Japan winds in and out like a snake from southwest to northeast, a distance of more than two thousand miles.

日本这个国家位于西太平洋的深水地带, 像蛇一样弯弯曲曲地自西南向东延伸, 全长两千多英里。