Throe
[θrəʊ]
解释:
(noun.) severe spasm of pain; 'the throes of dying'; 'the throes of childbirth'.
(noun.) hard or painful trouble or struggle; 'a country in the throes of economic collapse'.
录入:默多克--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) Extreme pain; violent pang; anguish; agony; especially, one of the pangs of travail in childbirth, or purturition.
(n.) A tool for splitting wood into shingles; a frow.
(v. i.) To struggle in extreme pain; to be in agony; to agonize.
(v. t.) To put in agony.
手打:梅格
同义词及近义词:
n. Paroxysm (of extreme pain, especially in childbirth), fit, spasm, anguish, pang, agony.
校对:伦道夫
解释:
n. suffering pain: agony: the pains of childbirth.—v.i. to be in agony.—v.t. to put in agony.
杰拉尔德编辑
例句:
- A pang of exquisite suffering--a throe of true despair--rent and heaved my heart. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- The throes of a sort of moral earthquake were felt heaving under the hills of the northern counties. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- We all stood equal sharers of the last throes of time-worn nature. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- What Dryad was born of these throes? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- I resolved to visit London, to see him; to quiet these agonizing throes by the sweet medicine of hope, or the opiate of despair. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- Indisposed to hesitate, and full of impatient impulses--soul and senses quivering with keen throes--I put it back and looked in. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- When, asked one of the women, will we enjoy the death throes of the red one? 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
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