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海峡

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

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®

straits
     n 1: a bad or difficult situation or state of affairs [syn: {pass},
           {strait}]
     2: a difficult juncture; "a pretty pass"; "matters came to a
        head yesterday" [syn: {pass}, {head}]