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资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Strait \Strait\, a.
   A variant of {Straight}. [Obs.]

Strait \Strait\, a. [Compar. {Straiter}; superl. {Straitest}.]
   [OE. straight, streyt, streit, OF. estreit, estroit, F.
   ['e]troit, from L. strictus drawn together, close, tight, p.
   p. of stringere to draw tight. See 2nd {Strait}, and cf.
   {Strict}.]
   1. Narrow; not broad.

            Strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which
            leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
                                                  --Matt. vii.
                                                  14.

            Too strait and low our cottage doors. --Emerson.

   2. Tight; close; closely fitting. --Shak.

   3. Close; intimate; near; familiar. [Obs.] ``A strait degree
      of favor.'' --Sir P. Sidney.

   4. Strict; scrupulous; rigorous.

            Some certain edicts and some strait decrees. --Shak.

            The straitest sect of our religion.   --Acts xxvi. 5
                                                  (Rev. Ver.).

   5. Difficult; distressful; straited.

            To make your strait circumstances yet straiter.
                                                  --Secker.

   6. Parsimonious; niggargly; mean. [Obs.]

            I beg cold comfort, and you are so strait, And so
            ingrateful, you deny me that.         --Shak.

Strait \Strait\, v. t.
   To put to difficulties. [Obs.] --Shak.

Strait \Strait\, adv.
   Strictly; rigorously. [Obs.] --Shak.

Strait \Strait\, n.; pl. {Straits}. [OE. straight, streit, OF.
   estreit, estroit. See {Strait}, a.]
   1. A narrow pass or passage.

            He brought him through a darksome narrow strait To a
            broad gate all built of beaten gold.  --Spenser.

            Honor travels in a strait so narrow Where one but
            goes abreast.                         --Shak.

   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.

            We steered directly through a large outlet which
            they call a strait, though it be fifteen miles
            broad.                                --De Foe.

   3. A neck of land; an isthmus. [R.]

            A dark strait of barren land.         --Tennyson.

   4. Fig.: A condition of narrowness or restriction; doubt;
      distress; difficulty; poverty; perplexity; -- sometimes in
      the plural; as, reduced to great straits.

            For I am in a strait betwixt two.     --Phil. i. 23.

            Let no man, who owns a Providence, grow desperate
            under any calamity or strait whatsoever. --South.

            Ulysses made use of the pretense of natural
            infirmity to conceal the straits he was in at that
            time in his thoughts.                 --Broome.

资料来源 : WordNet®

strait
     n 1: a narrow channel of the sea joining two larger bodies of
          water [syn: {sound}]
     2: a bad or difficult situation or state of affairs [syn: {pass},
         {straits}]

strait
     adj : strict and severe; "strait is the gate"