1N-PLURAL [usually with poss](彻底失败或终结前的)垂死挣扎 The death throes of something are its final stages, just before it fails completely or ends. (彻底失败或终结前的)垂死挣扎 [literary]
Their work is a despairing metaphor for a society in its death throes.
他们的作品是对一个正在作垂死挣扎的社会的绝望隐喻。
The dead tycoon's sons will remain in their plush offices overseeing the death throes of the family empire.
这位已故大亨的儿子们将坐在豪华的办公室里,目睹这个家族帝国崩溃前的痛苦挣扎。
2N-PLURAL [oft in poss N](人或动物)临死前痛苦的挣扎 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. (人或动物)临死前痛苦的挣扎