Throe

(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

• 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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