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 man was in great straits.
那人遭遇了大困难。 - The Straits of Gibraltar are the strategic passage between the Mediterranean and the Atlantic.
直布罗陀海峡是地中海通向大西洋的咽喉。 - Thus the Seventh Fleet invaded the Taiwan Straits and the U.S. 13th Air Force set up base in Taiwan.
美国第七舰队侵入了台湾海峡,美国第十三航空队进驻了台湾。 - 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。 - The funnelling effect of bays, estuaries and straits.
海湾、河口和海峡形成的漏斗效应。 - 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。 - We are one single mestizo race from Mexico to the Magellan Straits.
从墨西哥到麦哲伦海峡我们是一个单独的混血种族。 - 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。 - We have a Trilateral Strategic Dialogue with Japan and Australia, with Japan and South Korea, and we have informal arrangements guiding cooperation in the Straits of Malacca.
我们与日本和澳大利亚、以及日本和韩国进行了三边战略对话。我们通过非正式磋商来指导在马六甲海峡地区的合作。 - 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。