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单词 in the throes of
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in the throes of
in the throes of: undergoing or in the middle of a difficult, violent, or traumatic process; (now frequently in weakened sense) in the act or process of carrying out a particular task, esp. a difficult or convoluted one.
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1811 Belfast Monthly Mag. Dec. 486/1 It will be..for the councils of America, at such a pregnant season as the present, to entertain views grandly prospective, and commensurate, with the destinies of the whole continent, now labouring, and as we may say, in the throes of deliverance from ancient oppression.
1821 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 6 Oct. 1/2 The convulsions and revolutions, that have removed again and again the landmarks of empire..like the heaving of the earth in the throes of an earthquake!
1856 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (1858) II. ix. 373 When a nation is in the throes of revolution, wild spirits are abroad in the storm.
1878 J. J. Young Ceramic Art (1879) 125 The author is represented seated at a table..in the very throes of composition.
1898 Truth (Sydney) 27 Nov. 1/3 Molong, a sweet town of the west, is in the throes of a municipal crisis—and all about a night man.
1918 G. Lee Diary 15 Feb. in Home Fires Burning (2006) 244 We are all in the throes of filling in our registration cards for butter or margarine and meat.
1976 F. Zweig New Acquisitive Society ii. iii. 99 The private sector, particularly in the throes of recession, is limited in its ability to pay by the discipline of the market system.
2015 Flamborough (Ont.) Rev. (Nexis) 3 July She is in the throes of writing a second novel.
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