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.
  1. An estimated 1600 vessels pass through the strait annually.
     估计每年有 1,600 艘船通过该海峡。
  2. ...the Straits of Gibraltar.
     直布罗陀海峡
• 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.
  1. 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。
  2. 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。

英英释义

noun

• a difficult juncture
  1. a pretty pass
  2. matters came to a head yesterday
  Synonym:passhead
• a bad or difficult situation or state of affairs
  Synonym:passstrait

双语例句

• 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。
• Who was this governor of the Straits Settlements?
  谁是海峡殖民地当时的总督？
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。