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 world bank and other donors demand more cash to lend to developing countries in dire straits.
世界银行(worldbank)和其它捐赠组织需要更多现金,以贷款给那些陷入严重困境的发展中国家。 - 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。 - Separated from mainland Canada by several straits, the island is actually the peak of a sunken mountain range.
转载翻译部分请注明天涯东方猪。这座岛屿实际是一座沉没了山脉的顶峰,与加拿大本土相隔了几座海峡。 - 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。 - Penang was one of the three Straits Settlements under British rule along with Malacca and Singapore.
槟城是三个海峡殖民地英国统治下与马六甲海峡和新加坡。 - 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。 - They have occupied our Taiwan and the Taiwan Straits and are contemplating an atomic war.
他们侵占中国的台湾和台湾海峡,还想发动原子战争。 - 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。 - As it is, the North is in desperate economic straits.
实际上,朝鲜正处于令人绝望的经济困境中。 - The American economy remains in dire straits, with one worker in six unemployed or underemployed.
美国经济仍深陷困境,每六个劳工就有一个失业或未充分就业。