straits
英 [streɪts]
美 [streɪts]
n. 海峡; (联结两大水域的)水道; (尤指经济拮据引起的)困境，境况窘迫
strait的复数
柯林斯词典
- N-COUNT; N-IN-NAMES 海峡;(连接两大海域的)水道
You can refer to a narrow strip of sea which joins two large areas of sea as astraitorthe straits.- An estimated 1600 vessels pass through the strait annually.
估计每年有 1,600 艘船通过该海峡。 - ...the Straits of Gibraltar.
直布罗陀海峡
- An estimated 1600 vessels pass through the strait annually.
- N-PLURAL (通常指因缺钱造成的)困境，窘迫
If someone isindire or desperatestraits, they are in a very difficult situation, usually because they do not have much money.- If we had a child, we'd be in really dire straits...
假如我们有了小孩，我们会真正陷入困境。 - The company's closure has left many small businessmen in desperate financial straits.
该公司的倒闭让很多小商人陷入了经济困境。
- If we had a child, we'd be in really dire straits...
英英释义
noun
- a difficult juncture
- a pretty pass
- matters came to a head yesterday
- a bad or difficult situation or state of affairs
双语例句
- The Straits of Gibraltar have not lost their strategic importance.
直布罗陀海峡尚未丧失其战略上的重要地位。 - China is the common homeland of compatriots on both sides of the straits.
中国是两岸同胞的中国，是两岸同胞的共同家园。 - Now that father's lost his job, we're in serious straits.
父亲失业了，我们现在经济十分拮据。 - He had sailed through the Straits of Magellan and he told her stories of the terrible Patagonians.
他曾经穿过了麦哲伦海峡，他给她讲可怕的巴塔丹尼亚印地安人的故事。 - The waters of eastern Bohai Straits is the only route for vessels entering or leaving Bohai Sea Gulf.
渤海海峡以东海域是船舶进出渤海湾的必经之路。 - The funnelling effect of bays, estuaries and straits.
海湾、河口和海峡形成的漏斗效应。 - Who was this governor of the Straits Settlements?
谁是海峡殖民地当时的总督？ - This is the root cause of tension across the Taiwan Straits.
这是造成台湾海峡局势紧张的根本原因。 - Freedom of passage through strategic straits was jeopardized.
在战略性海峡通过的自由地遭到了破坏。 - Foundationalism falls into straits of solving epistemic regress problem which brings about another main theory directly Coherentism.
基础主义在解决知识回溯问题上陷入了困境，这直接导致了另一种重要的替代理论&一致主义的产生。