straits 音标拼音: [str'ets]
n . 海峡
海峡
straits n 1 :
a bad or difficult situation or state of affairs [
synonym :
{
pass }, {
strait }, {
straits }]
2 :
a difficult juncture ; "
a pretty pass "; "
matters came to a head yesterday " [
synonym : {
pass }, {
head }, {
straits }]
Strait \
Strait \,
n .;
pl . {
Straits }. [
OE .
straight ,
streit ,
OF .
estreit ,
estroit .
See {
Strait },
a .]
1 .
A narrow pass or passage .
[
1913 Webster ]
He brought him through a darksome narrow strait To a broad gate all built of beaten gold . --
Spenser .
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1913 Webster ]
Honor travels in a strait so narrow Where one but goes abreast . --
Shak .
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2 .
Specifically : (
Geog .)
A (
comparatively )
narrow passageway connecting two large bodies of water ; --
often in the plural ;
as ,
the strait ,
or straits ,
of Gibraltar ;
the straits of Magellan ;
the strait ,
or straits ,
of Mackinaw .
[
1913 Webster ]
We steered directly through a large outlet which they call a strait ,
though it be fifteen miles broad . --
De Foe .
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1913 Webster ]
3 .
A neck of land ;
an isthmus . [
R .]
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A dark strait of barren land . --
Tennyson .
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1913 Webster ]
4 .
Fig .:
A condition of narrowness or restriction ;
doubt ;
distress ;
difficulty ;
poverty ;
perplexity ; --
sometimes in the plural ;
as ,
reduced to great straits .
[
1913 Webster ]
For I am in a strait betwixt two . --
Phil .
i .
23 .
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Let no man ,
who owns a Providence ,
grow desperate under any calamity or strait whatsoever . --
South .
[
1913 Webster ]
Ulysses made use of the pretense of natural infirmity to conceal the straits he was in at that time in his thoughts . --
Broome .
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1913 Webster ]
87 Moby Thesaurus words for "
straits ":
arm ,
armlet ,
bay ,
bayou ,
belt ,
bight ,
bind ,
boca ,
broken fortune ,
clutch ,
complication ,
cove ,
creek ,
crunch ,
difficulties ,
distress ,
embarrassing position ,
embarrassment ,
estuary ,
euripus ,
fine how -
do -
you -
do ,
fjord ,
frith ,
genteel poverty ,
gulf ,
gut ,
harbor ,
hard pinch ,
hardship ,
hell to pay ,
hobble ,
hot water ,
how -
do -
you -
do ,
imbroglio ,
impecuniosity ,
impecuniousness ,
inlet ,
insolvency ,
jam ,
kyle ,
light purse ,
loch ,
mess ,
mix ,
morass ,
mouth ,
narrow ,
narrow means ,
narrow seas ,
narrows ,
natural harbor ,
parlous straits ,
pass ,
pickle ,
pinch ,
plight ,
poorness ,
poverty ,
predicament ,
pretty pass ,
pretty pickle ,
pretty predicament ,
quagmire ,
quicksand ,
reach ,
road ,
roads ,
roadstead ,
scrape ,
slender means ,
slough ,
sound ,
spot ,
squeeze ,
stew ,
sticky wicket ,
strait ,
straitened circumstances ,
swamp ,
tight spot ,
tight squeeze ,
tightrope ,
tricky spot ,
unholy mess ,
unprosperousness ,
voluntary poverty ,
vows of poverty
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