throes

英 [θrəʊz]

美 [θroʊz]

n.  (尤指死亡时的)剧痛

GRE

Collins.1 / COCA.14716

习惯用语

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
• The country was in the throes of revolutionary change.
  国家正处于革命动荡中。

牛津词典

noun

• （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。

柯林斯词典

• 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 thethroesof 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
• PREP-PHRASE 正忙于…;处于…困境之中
  If you arein the throes ofdoing 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。
• See also:death throes

英英释义

noun

• violent pangs of suffering
  1. death throes

双语例句

• 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。
• 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。
• By 1740 European feudalism was in its death throes.
  到1740年，欧洲的封建主义摇摇欲坠。
• The country is in the throes of a general election
  该国正忙于大选。
• England was in the throes of a parliamentary campaign.
  英国处于国会竞选的阵痛之中。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。