straits 的 2 个定义
- Often straits. a narrow passage of water connecting two large bodies of water.
- Often straits. a position of difficulty, distress, or need: Ill and penniless, he was in sad straits indeed.
- Archaic. a narrow passage or area.
- an isthmus.
Archaic.
- narrow: Strait is the gate.
- affording little space; confined in area.
- strict, as in requirements or principles.
straits 近义词
crisis, difficulty
water channel
更多straits例句
- The straightest of strait-laced operators – who see search as a powerful and useful customer touchpoint, are tarnished with the same brush as the sketchiest of spammers and scammers who are still alive and well within the industry.
- I don’t want to downplay the dire straits that our elementary school kids are facing, but I don’t think taking away resources from middle and high schools kids is the answer — at least not in the numbers they are asking.
- Still, with millions of Americans out of work and in increasingly desperate straits, some lawmakers are growing more vocal with their fears about the risks of not reaching an agreement quickly.
- Prospect officials never disclosed the plan’s dire straits during the state approval process.
- Whatever the cause, the havoc this week leaves some teams, like the San Francisco 49ers and the Denver Broncos, in pretty dire straits.
- About $10 billion was earmarked to build a bridge across the Kerch Strait, with its unpredictable currents during spring floods.
- All were led by William Barents, he of the famous strait, who sought to find a shorter trade route from Europe to China.
- And if the Strait of Hormuz were to be blocked by Iran or any other country or entity, oil prices would skyrocket.
- “Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it,” or so says Matthew 7.
- If a conflict with Iran escalated beyond airstrikes to a naval struggle in the Strait of Hormuz, more resources would be diverted.
- The children of thy barrenness shall still say in thy ears: The place is too strait for me, make me room to dwell in.
- Departure on the fourth voyage, accompanied by a merchant-ship bound through Torres Strait.
- Directions for the passage within the reefs through Torres Strait.
- And the brave explorer sailed safely through the dangerous strait now named for him.
- On the south-side of Clarence Strait the land is low, like the coast to the eastward.