throes

名词挣扎; 剧痛（如分娩时的阵痛）

1. 剧痛：throe /产痛/挣扎/痛苦/剧痛/ | throes /剧痛/ | thromballosis /静脉血凝固/

1. (尤指最后阶段的)困境,痛苦
    If someone is experiencing something very unpleasant or emotionally painful, you can say that they are in the throes of it, especially when it is in its final stages.

    e.g. ...when the country was going through the final throes of civil war.
           当时这个国家正处在内战最后的痛苦关头
    e.g. ...the agonising throes of transition.
           过渡时期的煎熬

2. 正忙于…;处于…困境之中
    If you are in the throes of doing or experiencing something, especially something difficult, you are busy doing it or are deeply involved in it.

    e.g. The country is in the throes of a general election...
           该国正忙于大选。
    e.g. Despite being in the throes of school exams, Tamsin made the long trek from Liverpool.
           虽然还要忙着准备学校的考试，塔姆辛还是完成了从利物浦出发的漫长而艰辛的跋涉。

3. see also: death throes

1. It is hard keeping quiet in the throes of childbirth but almost everything is hard for mothers in Niger.

2. The patient is the American consumer the world's biggest by far, but now in the throes of the worst funk since the Great Depression.

3. As Friedman's landmark television series " Free to Choose " was being broadcast in 1980, the world economy stood in the throes of a singular transformation.

4. The Western powers are already in the throes of one of the worst economic crises.

5. throes

5. And yet there is no illusion at all in saying that professional competitive sport is in the throes of a grave crisis.

6. throes在线翻译

6. They're in the throes now of a dissolving marriage after a family tragedy, on their last trip before the divorce.

7. Naomi has revealed she refused to speak of her pregnancy because she was in the throes of morning sickness.

8. Among the cries and throes afflicted by the sudden shock there also ascends cries for new life amid the happiest throes on earth.

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9. But as the birthplace of the old model, Zhongguancun might also be where it heaves its death throes.

10. " Many cities in the mainland are in the throes of pollution, " said Zhou.

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