N-PLURAL
(尤指最后階段的)困境,痛苦
If someone is experiencing something very unpleasant or emotionally painful, you can say that they are in the throes of it, especially when it is in its final stages.
例句
...when the country was going through the final throes of civil war.
當(dāng)時這個國家正處在內(nèi)戰(zhàn)最后的痛苦關(guān)頭
...the agonising throes of transition.
過渡時期的煎熬