straits 

  1. 名詞
strait複數: 海峽
/以上通常為複數/
限定複數:
困境, 危難

    同義字詞
channel,narrows,neck,sound
affliction,agony,anguish,distress,excruciation,hurt,misery,pain,rack,torment,torture,travail,tribulation,woe

例句

  1. The NBN is not in dire straits .
  2. It pull them in dire financial straits .
  3. Dire Straits and discos filled him with horror.
  4. Everton, to put it bluntly, are in dire straits .
  5. In such straits he has little room for manoeuvre.