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。 - 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 funnelling effect of bays, estuaries and straits.
海湾、河口和海峡形成的漏斗效应。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。