throes

1 Now, that same medium is in the throes of a 21st-century reconstruction, from the narratives and characters being foregrounded to fundamental notions of aesthetic excellence, beauty and pleasure.

2 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。

3 In its death throes, the Sun will slowly pulsate, expanding and contracting once every few millennia, eventually spewing its atmosphere into space in one or more concentric shells of gas.

4 Well, in the final throes of an election season, when values are front and center, I probably had you at ethics, didn’t I?

5 Tower, his friends and family knew he was in the throes of mental health crisis, but no one was sure why.

6 As Cathy in “Rapture” advises a female student in the throes of love and ambition, “My middle-aged observation is that, in a relationship between two equals, you can’t both go first.”

7 Yet here we are in the throes of a bitter war over immigration.

8 They squinted at shopping lists and called home to double-check things, in the throes of tasks only dads can do.

9 For Townshend, the band's inability to make "Lifehouse" a reality proved to be a terrible blow, leaving him in the throes of a nervous breakdown and nearly leading to the Who's dissolution.

10 The Sarria orchestra was in the final throes of rehearsing for a concert this week.

11 In the first 40 years of the 19th century, with Britain in the throes of the Industrial Revolution, the population of the capital doubled to almost 2 million.

12 A new survey has indicated that the us is in the throes of a serious "vacation deficit."

一项新的调查显示，美国人正在遭受严重的“度假赤字”困境。

13 But the tears flow lightly through passages of gorgeous description and psychological investigation, leaving behind a powerful portrait of a broken family – "a family without gravity" – in the throes of piecing itself back together.

14 What emerges is a subtle portrait of a society in the throes of rapid social transformation, still haunted by the cruelties of its feudal past.

15 The award is, of course, a naked public relations enterprise, bestowed upon a celebrity — often an actor — who is in the throes of promoting a new project.

16 Here is Sachs in the throes of creativity, all fidgety and restless.

17 Two years ago, Washington was in the throes of the debate about Initiative 77, which would have phased out the minimum-wage exemption for tipped employees.

18 This was the first time science throttled the throes of any organism.

这是科学第一次阻止了生物体的痛苦。

19 In her second novel, Hilary Davidson delivers an exhilarating view of Machu Picchu as well as an exciting plot that revolves around a woman lost in the throes of grief.

20 There were moments when she seemed to be in the throes of a trance.

1 苦斗

wrestle

2 阵痛

pain labor travail throe birth pangs labor pains twinge

3 挣扎

struggling struggle agony flounder scrabble wriggle buffeting buffet agonise struggle along

4 奋力

push strain strive extend hurl bring oneself to like fury

5 剧痛

splitting sting twinge shoot achy lancination smart stitch torment gyp throe pang anguish