Straits settlements
英属海峡殖民地
🧩 词语组成解析
straits
[[streits]]
n. [谓语用单数]海峡, 困难, 窘迫
n. 解决( settlement的复数形式 ); 结算; <律>金钱或财产的转让（契约）; 移民
🗣️ 情景例句
It's too close to the refreshments.
它离茶点太近了。
A Ph.D. Doctor of Philosophy from Yale.
在耶鲁大学攻读了哲学博士学位。
He was known to us all as Dickie and his eccentricity had become legendary long before he died.
大家都管他叫迪基。早在他去世前很久，他的古怪行为就成了传奇故事了。