straits是什么意思？

straits

英[streɪts] 美[streɪts]

• n. 困境，窘迫，海峡( strait的名词复数 )，窘迫，困难，艰苦；

例句

• Now that father’s lost his job,we’re in dire straits. 父亲失业了,我们陷入了极大的困境。
• a saboteur of the stability of the Taiwan Straits 台湾海峡安定局面的破坏者
• Now that father's lost his job, we're in dire straits. 父亲失业了, 我们陷入了极大的困境。
• The company is in dire straits. 公司处于极度困难的境地.
• Freedom of passage through strategic straits was jeopardized. 在战略性海峡通过的自由地遭到了破坏.
• Crustal movements closed the straits, and the landlocked Mediterranean began to evaporate. 地壳运动封闭了海峡, 被陆地包围的地中海也开始蒸发.
• 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.
• 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'sclosure 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。
• Agamemnon was in great straits. 阿伽门农的处境极为不妙.

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• 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 a strait or the straits .
  例句
  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
• N-PLURAL
  (通常指因缺钱造成的)困境，窘迫
  If someone is in dire or desperate straits, they are in a very difficult situation, usually because they do not have much money.
  例句
  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。

英汉词典释义

• n.
  困境，窘迫
  Now that father’s lost his job,we’re in dire straits. 父亲失业了,我们陷入了极大的困境。

英英词典释义

• Noun
  1. a bad or difficult situation or state of affairs
  2. a difficult juncture;
  "a pretty pass""matters came to a head yesterday"