Straits

例句/造句/用法:

• That bridge, though of different material, was in its principle of construction similar to the iron tubular bridges at Conway and at the Menai Straits. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
• Permission could not be obtained to interfere with the navigation of the Straits in the slightest degree during the building, and so piers and arches could not be used. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
• I had paid for all the experiments on the quadruplex and exhausted the money, and I was again in straits. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
• Robert designed the tubular bridge across the Menai Straits on this line, which was considered a most remarkable feat. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
• No tear dropped over that pillow; in such straits as these, the heart has no tears to give,--it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
• And, woman, though dressed in silk and jewels, you are but a woman, and, in life's great straits and mighty griefs, ye feel but one sorrow! 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
• And into the straits of Royd Lane they accordingly defiled. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
• I then left my station, and ran to the entrance of the works, where I got into a boat, and bade the men pull out as far as they could into the middle of the Straits. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
• The Russian Baltic Fleet sailed round Africa to be utterly destroyed in the Straits of Tshu-shima. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
• I told him Mr. Orton had gone off and left me without means, and I was in straits. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
• She started up and bounded towards him in an instant: he was evidently in great straits for breath. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
• Sound is conveyed through these cavities as readily as through speaking tubes, and conversation can be thus easily carried on across the Straits. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
• Then there came to Terkoz's rescue the same thing that had put him in these sore straits--a man's reasoning power. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• Sicily fell completely to Carthage, and Rome came down to the toe and heel of Italy, and looked across the Straits of Messina at her new rival. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
• The Britannia Bridge, across the Menai Straits, was a triumphant response to the call for a new kind of suspended roadway adapted to the requirements of railways. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.

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