| 词汇 | throes |
| 释义 | throes noun[ plural ] uk /θrəʊz/ us /θroʊz/ in the throes of something experiencing or doing something that is difficult, unpleasant, or painful: 处于…的困境之中；处于…的苦难中；处于…的动荡时期 The country is presently in the throes of the worst recession since the Second World War.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-life crisis that makes him pretty hard to live with.他正处于中年危机的痛苦时期，很难与他一起生活。 See also death throesliterary Difficult situations and unpleasant experiences a hard/tough row to hoeidiom abyss adversity at your worstidiom Augean bad hair day epidemic half nelson hardness have a bumpy rideidiom pall prison purgatory push factor quagmire quicksand scrape strait the Augean Stablesidiom the hard wayidiom throes | American Dictionarythroes noun us/θroʊz/ difficulties or pain: He was in the throes of despair after losing his job. Examples of throesthroes Some of these "others" did not seem, in the throes of emotion, to turn their decisions over to family members. Other authors wrestled with ' the throes of an often painful love relationship with the divine ' (p. 119). A man is rushed to a hospital in the throes of a heart attack. The wind carries the song, the ecstasies and throes of which parallel and even sympathize with the surge and swell of the river. Immediately, there is a distracting sound from the sofa, and he hears, once again, as he had in his dream, the death throes of the old countess. This elision of rural life and hunting is recent: the political threat to hunting has become a symbol for an occupational group in the throes of drastic economic 'rationalisation'. If performance factors influence children's linguistic performance because they are in the throes of language learning, children and adults do not share the same linguistic performance capacities. 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 the throes of death. Moreover, the death throes of 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. A dying authority is useless and it can have very nasty death throes. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Meanwhile, the entertainment industry seems to be in the throes of a passionate love affair with violence, embracing it at every opportunity. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The entertainment industry seems to be in the throes of a passionate love affair with violence, embracing it at every opportunity. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They are in the throes of doing almost the opposite of what they have committed themselves to doing. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English The industry is in the throes of an intensified drive for more mechanisation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Everything cannot be changed in the last throes of the review. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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