strait是什么意思

短语搭配

(1)the strait海峡；该海峡

双语例句

(1)The country is in dire straits and people are suffering hunger.

这个国家正处于水深火热之中，人民饱受饥饿之苦。

(2)The Strait of Malacca is in Malaysia.

马六甲海峡位于马来西亚。

(3)The economic crisis has plunged many small companies into financial straits.

经济危机使得很多小公司陷入财务困境。

(4)There is a strait between Taiwan and the mainland.

台湾和大陆之间有一条海峡

(5)An estimated 1,600 vessels pass through the strait annually.

估计每年有1600艘船经过这个海峡。

(6)Yemen commands the strait at the southern end of the Red Sea.

也门完全控制着红海南端的海峡。

(7)The house had a fabulous view out to the Strait of Georgia and the Rockies beyond.

这座房子有很棒的景观，可以看到乔治亚海峡以及另一头的落基山脉。

(8)The idea for a bridge across the strait had been around for many years.

建一座跨海峡大桥的想法已经有很多年了。

(9)Van Diemen's Land is not joined to Australia, but is divided from it by the wide strait to which Bass's name is now so justly given.

范迪门斯地并不与澳洲大陆接壤，而是通过一个一个宽阔的海峡与之隔海相望，这个海峡日后被恰当地命名为“巴斯海峡”。

同义词

adj. 狭窄的；苦恼的

n. 海峡；困境

同根词

词根 strait

(1)straiten vi. 变窄；变紧vt. 限制；使…穷困；使…为难

单词辨析

海峡

(1)strait 指短而窄的海峡。常用复数形式但作单数用。

(2)channel 指比strait长而宽的海峡。

释义

n.

（亦作straits）a narrow passage of water connecting two seas or two large areas of water

海峡

[in place names]the Straits of Gibraltar.

直布罗陀海峡。

2 (straits )used in reference to a situation characterized by a specified degree of trouble or difficulty

困境；窘迫

the economy is in dire straits

经济处于极端困难的境地

redundancy left him in severe financial straits.

被裁员下岗使他陷入严重的经济困难。

adj.

archaic (of a place) of limited spatial capacity; narrow or cramped

〈古〉 （地方）空间有限的；狭窄的，狭促的

the road was so strait that a handful of men might have defended it.

那条路那么窄，几个人可能就守得住。

close, strict, or rigorous

严格的，严密的，精确的

my captivity was strait as ever.

我被囚禁得和以往一样严。

类似拼写词

strait n. 海峡；困境；窘迫

strain v. 竭尽全力；使（身体部位）充分发挥功能；将…过滤；拉紧；努力；绷紧；使劲；张紧；尽力；扭伤

词源

"Middle English： shortening of Old French estreit ‘tight, narrow', from Latin strictus ‘drawn tight' （see STRICT）."

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( 1)n. 海峡

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( 1)n. 海峡

英文释义：a narrow channel of the sea joining two larger bodies of water