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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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 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。 - These attacks are still a regular occurrence today in the Malacca Straits and the South China Sea.
这些袭击事件仍然经常发生今天在马六甲海峡和南方的中国海。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。