throe

/throh/US // θroʊ //UK // (θrəʊ) //

悸动,喉咙,袅袅婷婷,袅袅

Definitions

n.名词 noun

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- : a violent spasm or pang; paroxysm.
- : a sharp attack of emotion.
- : throes, any violent convulsion or struggle: the throes of battle.the agony of death.the pains of childbirth.

nounpain

Forms: throes

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One of the most delicate times in the pandemic will be the period between its worst throes and widespread immunity.
No matter that the economy, then as now, was in the throes of a historic economic catastrophe.
Let’s start with Grantham’s warning on how a big, new spike in prices, from already high levels, presages the death throes of a bull market.
Advertisers say they need agencies now more than ever, and in the throes of economic uncertainty, they are working their agencies harder.
One of the lessons our animals teach us is to love even in the throes of grieving.
The sea moaned—more than moaned—among the boulders below the ruins, a throe of its tide being timed to regular intervals.
Sneak had hastily brought thither his effects, and without a throe of regret abandoned his house for ever to the owls.
A throe of anguish caused her to concentrate her strength with one grand effort, and the rope that held her right hand parted.
Pang, pang, n. a violent but not long-continued pain: a sudden and bitter feeling of sorrow: a throe.
Every throe of the sick girl seemed to penetrate her own body.