1N-PLURAL [usually with poss](徹底失敗或終結前的)垂死掙紮 The death throes of something are its final stages, just before it fails completely or ends. (徹底失敗或終結前的)垂死掙紮 [literary]
Their work is a despairing metaphor for a society in its death throes.
他們的作品是對一個正在作垂死掙紮的社會的絕望隐喻。
The dead tycoon's sons will remain in their plush offices overseeing the death throes of the family empire.
這位已故大亨的兒子們將坐在豪華的辦公室裏,目睹這個家族帝國崩潰前的痛苦掙紮。
2N-PLURAL [oft in poss N](人或動物)臨死前痛苦的掙紮 If a person or animal is in their death throes, they are dying and making violent, uncontrolled movements, usually because they are suffering great pain. (人或動物)臨死前痛苦的掙紮