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Перевод: strait

[прилагательное]
узкий; строгий;
[существительное]
пролив ; перешеек ; затруднительное положение; стесненные обстоятельства; нужда

Тезаурус:

1. Strait kept silent until Otash died recently.
2. They cannot be seen from the village, but are visible from Anglesey across the Menai Strait.
3. strait talking Mark Knopfler Talking to Dire Straits' frontman backstage at one of the band's 150,000 per day tour dates, Bob Hewitt mused that when Guitaristlast spoke to Mr.Knopfler six years ago, further outings on the scale of "Brothers In Arms" seemed unthinkable.
4. They passed the Strait's tiny guardian islands, the Evangelistas - where there is now both a lighthouse ant a Chilean signal station - and sailed into an evening that suddenly became magically serene.
5. The Strait That Shall Forever Bear His Name
6. Stiff westerly winds made forward passage difficult, and the little boats had to tack this way and that within the narrow confines of the Strait's exit, before the funnel began to widen and the open sea to present itself Magellan, now perfectly confident of his discovery, named the waters Estrecho do Todos los Santos - All Saints' Strait.
7. There are lesser seas which must also be included, in particular the fifteen around the islands of the East Indian archipelago: the Sulu, Celebes and Molucca Seas, the Gulf of Tomini, the Halmahera, Ceram, Banda, Arafura (which may or may not contain the Gulf of Carpentaria, depending on which atlas is used), Timor and Flores Seas, the Gulf of Boni, the Bali Sea, the Makassar Strait, the Java and Savu Seas; and there is the Gulf of Thailand, the Strait of Malacca, the Singapore Strait and the Inland Sea of Japan.
8. Strait, agent to the late Jayne Mansfield, said the gruesome last moments of Monroe were secretly recorded for the Mafia.
9. For a few miles, as we hugged the shore of the Strait, the northbound road was paved; but once we had passed a junction and the track leading eastwards across to Argentina, it reverted to rutted gravel and the wind blew little spirals of dust across it, like ectoplasmic tumbleweed.
10. Other curious features can be seen at Lulworth Cove, home of the famous Strait Hole - a collapsed sea cave with striking rock formations and arches.
11. Add to this the Great Australian Bight and the Bass Strait - for if we did not, it would be difficult to regard Australia as a Pacific nation, which would indeed be a foolish error - and we have arrived at what seems the most appropriate and comprehensive definition of our goal: one oceanic bloc, twenty-four marginal Seas (of which one is designated Inland), five Gulfs, four Straits, one Canadian Confusion and one Australian Bight.
12. "The area with the greatest potential for immediate returns is the Chukchi Sea, north of the Bering Strait", David Scholl from the USGS told New Scientist .