throes

noun

1. （尤指死亡时的）剧痛
   violent pains, especially at the moment of death
   1. The creature went into its death throes.
      这小生命到了临终疼痛阶段。

1. N-PLURAL (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.
   1. ...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
   2. ...the agonising throes of transition.
      过渡时期的煎熬
2. PREP-PHRASE 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.
   1. The country is in the throes of a general election...
      该国正忙于大选。
   2. 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. 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. The country is in the throes of a general election
   该国正忙于大选。
4. 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。
5. When you're in the throes of new love, your prefrontal cortex also gets into the action, anticipating more time together and planning future events.
   当你陷入爱情的苦恼时，你的前额皮质也会活跃，你会期望更多的相处时间并对未来做出计划。
6. Europe is in the throes of its most dangerous crisis since the end of the cold war.
   欧洲自冷战结束以来最危险的一场危机正在酝酿之中。
7. We are in the last throes of the US dollar bull party, he warns.
   布卢姆警告道：我们处于美元上涨盛宴的最后阵痛阶段。
8. 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。
9. 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。
10. Huge impact force and inertia will be lying on the bunk of the Liu Xudong throwing up, when he first thing that strikes the left eyebrow throes a while, then blood will be covered in one eye sight.
    巨大的撞击力和惯性将躺在铺位上的刘旭东抛了起来，当时，他只觉左眉一阵巨痛，随即鲜血便遮住了左眼视线。
11. Only barbarians are able to rejuvenate a world in the throes of collapsing civilization.
    的确，只有野蛮人才能使一个在垂死的文明中挣扎的世界年轻起来。
12. The country is presently in the throes of the worst recession since the second world war.
    国家目前正处于二战后最萧条的动荡时期。
13. The Ganges River was in the throes of one of the worst floods it had ever known.
    恒河遭受到一次空前大泛滥的苦难。
14. Have you ever called out the wrong name in the throes of passion?
    你是否曾经在剧烈的痛苦之中叫错名子？
15. When the ancient world was in its last throes, the ancient religions were overcome by Christianity.
    当古代世界走向灭亡的时候，古代的各种宗教就被基督教战胜了。
16. A country in the throes of a fossil fuel boom will not readily welcome a message of restraint.
    一个正处于孕育化石燃料繁荣阵痛期的国家，不大会欢迎限制碳排放的信号。
17. Jack was in the throes of preparing for final exams, so he forgot about my birthday.
    杰克在努力准备期末考，所以忘了我的生日。
18. The creature went into its death throes.
    这小生命到了临终疼痛阶段。
19. 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。
20. America and other advanced nations are now in the early throes of a new jobs transformation, which requires an equally imaginative response.
    美国与其它发达国家如今正经历就业市场又一次转型的早期阵痛，这要求它们作出同样富有想象力的回应。
21. I may have seen some of you over the past few months at events but, for the most part, I've been undercover and deep in the throes of production.
    在过去几个月的活动中，我也许有和你们其中的一些人见面，但是大部分时间我都在暗中承受着创作的痛苦。
22. England was in the throes of a parliamentary campaign.
    英国处于国会竞选的阵痛之中。
23. Why can't we practise euthanasia to stop the throes?
    为什么不能用安乐死来结束他的痛苦？
24. 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。
25. Throes of it, should be a more regular interval of time is the law.
    阵痛呀，应该是比较有规律的，间隔的时间是有规律的。
26. My brother is in the throes of a mid-life crisis which makes him rather difficult to live with.
    我兄弟处于中年危机的痛苦时期，很难与他一起生活。
27. By 1740 European feudalism was in its death throes.
    到1740年，欧洲的封建主义摇摇欲坠。
28. This country is in the throes of war.
    这个国家处于战争的痛苦中。
29. 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。
30. We understand that a great majority of earthly Souls are in the throes of pain, suffering and uncertainty.
    我们理解大部分的地球层面的精神体处于产前的阵痛中，痛苦，骚动。

n.

in the throes of sth/of doing sth

• 正在做，正忙于（尤指困难或复杂的活动）
  in the middle of an activity, especially a difficult or complicated one
  1. The country was in the throes of revolutionary change.
     国家正处于革命动荡中。

noun

1. violent pangs of suffering
   1. death throes