strait是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 海峡; 困难, 窘迫，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Ships of the largest tonnage find, throughout, sufficient depth of water, even close to the shore, and there is a good bottom everywhere, and abundance of fresh water, and rivers abounding in fish, and forests in game, and plenty of safe and accessible harbors; in fact a thousand things which are lacking in Strait Lemaire and Cape Horn, with its terrible rocks, incessantly visited by hurricane and tempest.
-- The church steeple and the Chilian flag gleamed for an instant among the trees, and then the strait wound on between huge granitic masses which had an imposing effect.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On this occasion, Captain Nemo informed me that his intention was to get into the Indian Ocean by the Strait of Torres.
-- Amongst other things, we happened to speak of the situation of the Nautilus, run aground in exactly the same spot in this strait where Dumont d'Urville was nearly lost.
-- "To-morrow," added the Captain, rising, "to-morrow, at twenty minutes to three p.m., the Nautilus shall float, and leave the Strait of Torres uninjured."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And this had passed into such a habit with him, that, if he could not be correctly said to have his tongue at his fingers' ends, he might certainly be said to have it anywhere but in his face: which being, as we have already seen, of a harsh and repulsive character, was not oiled so easily, but frowned above all the smooth speeches one of nature's beacons, warning off those who navigated the shoals and breakers of the World, or of that dangerous strait the Law, and admonishing them to seek less treacherous harbours and try their fortune elsewhere.
-- Through the strait streets, and narrow crooked outskirts, their trembling feet passed quickly.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The allusion served as a timely reminder to Darnay that this disagreeable companion had, of his own free will, as-sisted him in the strait of the day.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The following night they passed through the Strait of Bab-el-Mandeb, which means in Arabic The Bridge of Tears, and the next day they put in at Steamer Point, north-west of Aden harbour, to take in coal.
-- During the afternoon of Wednesday, 30th October, the Rangoon entered the Strait of Malacca, which separates the peninsula of that name from Sumatra.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I may have been rash in pressing his consent in a mo-ment of much embarrassment, but I would have proved to him, that however others might neglect him in his strait his children at least were faithful.'
-- It ap-peared as if Webb, with his army, which lay slumbering on the banks of the Hudson, had utterly forgotten the strait to which his countrymen were reduced.
-- No, sir, thank Heaven we are not yet in such a strait that it can be said Munro is too much pressed to discharge the little domestic duties of his own family.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The strait she was in through pride and shrewishness could not be disguised longer: she burst out crying bitterly; they all saw it; and she attempted no further concealment.
-- You know, too, that I can't go without putting things in such a strait as you wouldn't get out of I can't tell when.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But now, even the most strait laced felt that patriotism called uponthem to be more broad minded.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Seeing him, I felt that I was in a dangerous strait indeed, and I kept my eyes upon him.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We landed at a small port-town called Xamoschi, situated on the south-east part of Japan; the town lies on the western point, where there is a narrow strait leading northward into along arm of the sea, upon the north-west part of which, Yedo, the metropolis, stands.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is now the residence of the keeper of the Strait of the Sound, and through that Sound more than fifteen thousand vessels of all nations pass every year.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Strait was the gate and narrow was the way; far straiter and narrower than the broad high road paved with vain professions and vain repetitions, motes from other men's eyes and liberal delivery of others to the judgment all cheap materials costing absolutely nothing.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Just now it's the fashion to be hideous, to make your head look like a scrubbing brush, wear a strait jacket, orange gloves, and clumping square-toed boots.
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