N-PLURAL
(尤指最后阶段的)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.
当时这个国家正处在内战最后的痛苦关头
...the agonising throes of transition.
过渡时期的煎熬