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单词 throes
释义
throes
noun[plural]
uk
/θrəʊz/us
/θroʊz/
in the throes ofsomething
experiencingor doing something that isdifficult,unpleasant, orpainful:
处于…的困境之中；处于…的苦难中；处于…的动荡时期
Thecountryispresentlyin the throes of theworstrecessionsince the SecondWorldWar.该国目前正处在二战以来最萧条动荡的时期。
He's in the throes of a mid-lifecrisisthat makes himprettyhard tolivewith.他正处于中年危机的痛苦时期，很难与他一起生活。
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death throesliterary
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(Definition ofthroesfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

throes| American Dictionary

throes
noun
us
/θroʊz/
difficultiesorpain:
He wasin the throes ofdespairafterlosinghisjob.
(Definition ofthroesfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofthroes

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Some of these "others" did not seem, in thethroesof emotion, to turn their decisions over to family members.
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Other authors wrestled with ' thethroesof an often painful love relationship with the divine ' (p. 119).
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A man is rushed to a hospital in thethroesof a heart attack.
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The wind carries the song, the ecstasies andthroesof which parallel and even sympathize with the surge and swell of the river.
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Immediately, there is a distracting sound from the sofa, and he hears, once again, as he had in his dream, the deaththroesof the old countess.
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This elision of rural life and hunting is recent: the political threat to hunting has become a symbol for an occupational group in thethroesof drastic economic 'rationalisation'.
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If performance factors influence children's linguistic performance because they are in thethroesof language learning, children and adults do not share the same linguistic performance capacities.
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A nursing home resident said to be a vegetable is treated differently from one who, say, ' has his wits about him ' or who is consciously in thethroesof death.
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Moreover, the deaththroesof the many beetles accumulating at contaminated pats were themselves enough to break some of the dung into fragments small enough to blow or wash away.
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A dying authority is useless and it can have very nasty deaththroes.
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Meanwhile, the entertainment industry seems to be in thethroesof a passionate love affair with violence, embracing it at every opportunity.
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The entertainment industry seems to be in thethroesof a passionate love affair with violence, embracing it at every opportunity.
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They are in thethroesof doing almost the opposite of what they have committed themselves to doing.
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The industry is in thethroesof an intensified drive for more mechanisation.
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Everything cannot be changed in the lastthroesof the review.
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