straitの意味・使い方・発音

strait

英 [streɪt] 美 [stret]

窮屈な, 狭い, 困難な, 恥ずかしい

古フランス語のestrait「狭い、窮屈な、きつい」から。ラテン語のstrictus「きつい」の過去分詞stringere「きつく引っ張る、きつく縛る」で、語源はstrain「緊張」。

ストレイト

形容詞straitから派生した名詞。例：Taiwan Strait、台湾海峡。

strait: strait: [12] Strait was originally an adjective and adverb, meaning ‘narrow’ or ‘tight’. It reached English via Old French estreit ‘narrow, tight’ from Latin strictus (source of English strict). Its use as a noun, ‘narrow waterway’, emerged in the 14th century, and the metaphorical straits ‘difficulties’ is a 16th-century development.
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strait (n.): mid-14c., "narrow, confined space or place," specifically of bodies of water from late 14c., from Old French estreit, estrait "narrow part, pass, defile, narrow passage of water," noun use of adjective (see strait (adj.)). Sense of "difficulty, plight" (usually straits) first recorded 1540s. Strait and narrow "conventional or wisely limited way of life" is recorded from mid-14c. (compare straight (adj.2)).
strait (adj.): "narrow, strict" (late 13c.), from Old French estreit, estrait "tight, close-fitting, constricted, narrow" (Modern French étroit), from Latin strictus, past participle of stringere (2) "bind or draw tight" (see strain (v.)). More or less confused with unrelated straight (adj.). Related: Straightly.

1. He was criticised for being boring， strait -laced and narrow-minded.: 彼は退屈で、古風で、心が狭いと指摘されている。

2.Yemen commands the strait at the southern end of the Red Sea.: イエメンは紅海南端の海峡を完全に制御している。

3.Ferries ply across a narrow strait to the island.: フェリーは、狭い海峡を渡って島に向かうタイミングで航行します。

4.The ship passed through the strait between two islands.: 船は2つの島の間の海峡を通り抜けた。