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1 To talk with Gloria Steinem, even when she’s in the throes of grief, loss and uncertainty, is to be enveloped in her unique embrace: one of understanding and caring, but also steely, spine-straightening optimism.

2 collapsed in the throes of agony

3 To be a Black performer in country, especially in the throes of the civil rights era, when Pride was getting his footing, was to put yourself on the line.

4 She meanwhile is documented in the throes of staging her own comeback, preparing to reprise her role as Princess Leia in Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

5 Or in the throes of that dramatic cliché known as the midlife crisis, which Mr. Stephens manages to turn into a born-again epiphany in this play.

6 Another is a gorgeous, slow-motion ballet that eerily evokes their death throes.

7 Signs of his inching progress appear in the images he shares while in the creative throes.

8 They’re dispatches from the throes of one breakup or many: arguments, pleas, accusations, declarations of loyalty and bitter renunciations, often addressed to a “you” that the singer can’t trust and can’t get over.

9 That’s easier said than done in the throes of a campaign when even genuine acts can seem like political posturing.

10 The nickname is a reference to the levels of pain some people experience when they are in dengue’s throes.

11 These subjects were in the dizzying early throes of enamoredness—that heady period during the first month to year-and-a-half of dating—and “so intensely in love that they could hardly eat or sleep.”

12 Peaches is in the throes of her first crush, on another wooly mammoth—”He’s not cute.

13 Here, he dreams of encountering psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor Viktor Frankl in the notorious concentration camp, writhing in the throes of a nightmare.

14 An opinion essay in the right-wing Journal du Dimanche said “the malaise of a nation in the throes of deconstruction” was in full view.

15 Walt Disney Pictures We may still be in the throes of award season, but cinephiles are already buzzing about 2013’s eagerly awaited films.

16 “It vibrates with an insomniac energy. I did, too, while in its throes.”

17 Beyond lay many more shapes; some singly as they had been hewn down or shot; others in pairs, still grappling one another, dead in the very throes of stabbing, throttling, biting.

18 When we heard her screams and throes in the night, when her wrists were bound with ropes and stinging poultices pressed upon her, we named her in our prayers.

19 Arias, an exciting and emotionally labile actor, makes Anna a jittery creature, like a woman in the constant throes of a low-grade fever.

20 Though grounded in deeply sensitive past events, the series shares its most keen insights in the throes of its superhero conceit.

1 苦闷

anxiety anguish angst katzenjammer oppression cafard sting agonize

2 阵痛

birthpang pain labor travail throes birth pangs labor pains twinge twitch

3 痛苦

painful bitter miserable grievous thorny afflicted anguished embittered wrenching gnawing laboring agonized tormenting painfully sorely pain smart trouble wound suffering torture distress wrench misery bale agony affliction martyrdom pang twinge infliction wark angor weight worry rack sting torment afflict prick wring fester agonise excruciate nag at make a martyr of in agony dolorous sore woe trial stress hurt calamity wormwood kill plague scourge harrow vex embitter sweat pinch agonize nasty anguish passion teen worm grief sour martyr laceration heaviness twang peine cark toko toco writhe ride

4 苦恼

troubled brooding aggrieved anguished heartsick distressful worryingly broodingly perplexedly tracasserie pain smart trouble torture distress irritation fret misery woe torment anguish scourge angst laceration hang-up wormwood vexation botheration worrit feeze angor languishment suffer bother prey eat strike tear hunt plague bait sting clog prick gripe victimize gnaw irk vex ail aggrieve lie heavy on lie heavy upon sit heavy on sit heavy upon weigh heavy on weigh heavy upon be sick at heart

5 奋斗

struggling effort fight stroke hustle tug turmoil hump perspiration nisus combat struggle

6 混乱

cock-a-hoop hirdie-girdie fouled-up involved upset confused chaotic dizzy turbulent tangled drowning tumultuous foggy disturbed disorderly woolly shaggy deranged unstuck haywire hurried snafu vexatious turbid non-operational mixed-up confounded mazy snarly hurly-burly flurried tangly raddled untogether wuzzy farmisht farblonjet drumly throughither helter-skelter muck-up ravelment ballup fubb fumtu hash-up do mix smoke disorder mess dust coil confusion pi jungle hassle disruption scramble clutter swirl melee tumble hustle maze turmoil tangle puddle whirlpool flurry huddle anarchy ruffle twine smother dislocation mull jumble perplex muddle snarl disarray crisscross skein cobweb botch tumult dither mix-up turbidity perplexity disorganization muss tousle topsy-turvy kerfuffle welter fubar involution ravel Mess-up unreason pell-mell foul-up dishabille bollix cockup moil deray balls-up hugger-mugger snarl-up swither mullock ataxy piss-up hurry-scurry schemozzle wander twist confuse disrupt amuse confound bugger entangle embroil denigrate disorganize derange roil disorient discombobulate ballocks fuddle mux disrupture ensnarl embrangle in a spin make hay of stand on its head throw out of gear ball up in a fog make work

7 挣扎

struggling struggle flounder scrabble sprawl thrash flounce welter

8 产痛

pain

9 剧痛

acute aching achy lancinating smart shooting stitch pinch sting agony pang twinge gnawing stang ache throes lancination torment gyp shoot splitting stab anguish kill wring excruciation angor

10 沉痛

sighful sighfully