death throes

noun

1. 临终；末日；最后阶段
   the final stages of sth just before it comes to an end
   1. The regime is now in its death throes.
      这一政权大势已去。
2. 临终的剧痛；死前的挣扎
   violent pains and movements at the moment of death

1. N-PLURAL (彻底失败或终结前的)垂死挣扎
   The death throes of something are its final stages, just before it fails completely or ends.
   1. Their work is a despairing metaphor for a society in its death throes...
      他们的作品是对一个正在作垂死挣扎的社会的绝望隐喻。
   2. The dead tycoon's sons will remain in their plush offices overseeing the death throes of the family empire.
      这位已故大亨的儿子们将坐在豪华的办公室里，目睹这个家族帝国崩溃前的痛苦挣扎。
2. （人或动物）临死前痛苦的挣扎
   If a person or animal is in their death throes, they are dying and making violent, uncontrolled movements, usually because they are suffering great pain.

1. Their work is a despairing metaphor for a society in its death throes
   他们的作品是对一个正在作垂死挣扎的社会的绝望隐喻。
2. The dead tycoon's sons will remain in their plush offices overseeing the death throes of the family empire.
   这位已故大亨的儿子们将坐在豪华的办公室里，目睹这个家族帝国崩溃前的痛苦挣扎。
3. While still a graduate student, Hawking became fascinated by black holes, the bizarre objects created during the death throes of large stars.
   还在当研究生的时候，他就对研究黑洞现象巨大星体泯灭过程中产生的奇怪物体入了迷。
4. Thankfully, his two advisors were kind-hearted: one gave the king a rifle filled with blanks, and the other dressed as a "peasant", acting out death throes when he was" shot ".
   幸好，他的两个善良的顾问，一个给国王枪支，另一个扮作农仆假装被国王射杀而死。
5. Black holes can be seen via the death throes of the matter being sucked in.
   经由正被吸引物质死亡阵痛能看见黑洞。
6. We watched the death throes of the bird which had flown into the window.
   我们看见了一只飞进窗内的小鸟在垂死挣扎。
7. But there was a reason why no buyer could be found in this universe. Lehman was a firm in its death throes.
   但在现实空间，有一个原因导致他们找不到买主：雷曼当时已在垂死挣扎。
8. When thisbe returned to join her boy-friend, she found him writhing in his death throes she showered tears and kisses on his cold pale face, hoping to caress him back to life.
   当提斯柏返回来准备与恋人相聚时，只见他倒在地上，正在临死前痛苦挣扎。她泪如泉涌，疯狂地在他那冰冷苍白的脸上亲吻，希望能挽回爱人的生命。
9. The creature went into its death throes.
   这小生命到了临终疼痛阶段。
10. What he mistook for the death throes of the capitalist era turned out to be its birth pangs.
    他误以为垂死挣扎的资本主义时代到头来只是它的阵痛而已。
11. In its death throes, it is an eerie microcosm of the eurozone.
    它的垂死挣扎，正是欧元区一个阴森恐怖的缩影。
12. Simmons said that so far, inside transactions need only be notified before the end of relevant month. The death throes began in March.
    席蒙斯说，截至目前为止，内线交易只需在发生当月的月底前通报。垂死前的痛苦是在3月里开始的。
13. By 1740 European feudalism was in its death throes.
    到1740年，欧洲的封建主义摇摇欲坠。
14. In a massive star's death throes, it can blast most of its outer material into space.
    在一个巨大星球的垂死挣扎时，它可能将自己大部分外层物质炸入太空。
15. These death throes fish out asthmatically, because the digital world is a markedly different place.
    这些垂死挣扎的鱼拼命喘着气，因为数字世界是一个截然不同的地方。