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单词 death throes
释义
death throes
noun[plural]
literary
uk
/ˈdeθ ˌθrəʊz/us
/ˈdeθ ˌθroʊz/
theprocessofdyingorendingin a verypainfulorunpleasantway:
（临死前的）痛苦挣扎；垂死挣扎
Mercutio,fatallystabbed,staggersround thestagein hisdeaththroes.被扎成重伤的默丘里奥在台上痛苦地挪着步。
Thegovernmentwasinitsdeaththroes.政府在作垂死挣扎。
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(Definition ofdeath throesfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofdeath throes

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Avalon is an enchanted isle in its finaldeaththroes.
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Tenebrarum's bloodlust would ultimately be her own undoing, as one of her victims, a maid, was inadvertently responsible for the house catching fire in the midst of herdeaththroes.
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Immediately, there is a distracting sound from the sofa, and he hears, once again, as he had in his dream, thedeaththroesof the old countess.
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Moreover, thedeaththroesof 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 nastydeaththroes.
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I hope that we are seeing thedeaththroesof private landlordism.
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Perhaps some of this strife will prove to be transitional; thedeaththroesof an old order.
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It is an attempt to make thedeaththroesless painful.
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I would regard that as not quite the death knell but pretty well thedeaththroesof the local education authority.
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One sees a party in itsdeaththroes.
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This concerns the housing co-ownership scheme, which is in itsdeaththroes.
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Leaving aside the convolutions of the 1986 budget and itsdeaththroes, the pantomime of the 1987 budget is still to come.
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Its finaldeaththroesare ever closer.
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But the giant must have plummeted to death, the crashing caused by him in hisdeaththroes.
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The wyvern in itsdeaththroesturned onto its back and floated down the river.
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