字面：斷氣前的抽動
這一支就是核心畫面本身，沒有比喻。
noun · C2
The sudden, uncontrolled movements that a person or an animal sometimes makes in the last moments before dying.
臨死前的抽動
核心畫面
One way to hold this phrase: a body in its last minutes, still moving, still making noise, but with the ending already decided. Everything death throes is used for keeps that shape — something that has not stopped yet, and is not going to recover.
這個詞可以想成一個快斷氣的身體：還在動、還有聲音，可是結局已經定了。death throes 的每一種用法都保留這個…更多收起
這個詞可以想成一個快斷氣的身體：還在動、還有聲音，可是結局已經定了。death throes 的每一種用法都保留這個形狀——東西還沒停，但也回不來了。Two branches
比喻：事物的末期
把一個計畫、公司或政權當成那個快斷氣的身體：門還開著、會還在開，但方向已經定了。這是一個教學上的連結，不是說這個意思在歷史上比較晚才出現。
noun · C2
The last stage of something that is failing, when it is still moving and struggling but is clearly about to end — used about plans, agreements, businesses, governments and periods of time.
垂死階段