straits [streɪts]

例句:

• The company'sclosure has left many small businessmen in desperate financial straits.
  该公司的倒闭让很多小商人陷入了经济困境。
  
• If we had a child, we'd be in really dire straits.
  假如我们有了小孩，我们会真正陷入困境。
  
• Now that father's lost his job, we're in dire straits.
  父亲失业了, 我们陷入了极大的困境.
  
• Many of Dire Straits' compositions were melancholic.
  来自BBC
• Straits Settlements become crown colony of British Empire.
  来自BBC
• Egypt had closed the Straits of Tiran to Israeli shipping.
  来自CNN