汉英词典
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MEANING OF 垂死挣扎
垂死挣扎 (垂死掙扎)
deathbed struggle / final struggle (idiom)
垂 nearly / Struggling before death, delusion to prolong life
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EXAMPLE SENTENCES

木材业和造纸业也在垂死挣扎

The lumber and paper industries are moribund.

即使是奄奄一息,敌人也还是要作垂死挣扎的。

Even though at their last gasp, the enemies will still put up their deathbed struggle.

然后她垂死挣扎,在时速80迈的撞车之后。

Then dying, after that crash at 80 miles an hour.

其一就是,分离主义是否真的如同目前所见那样垂死挣扎

One is whether separatism is quite as moribund as it now seems.

购物商城在美国国外正在继续繁衍,而在其发源地却垂死挣扎

While malls continue to multiply outside America, they are gradually dying in the country that pioneered them.

在心脏停搏垂死挣扎中的大多数人没有活到紧急医疗服务队来救他们的时候。

Most people in the throes of a cardiac arrest do not survive in time for emergency medical service teams to save them.

这份报告中有关雷曼兄弟篡改资产负债表的部分则展现出该行在破产前垂死挣扎的隐秘细节。

The report's sections on Lehman's efforts to manipulate its balance sheet provide previously unknown details on the investment bank's efforts to stave off collapse.

通用汽车公司是在赚钱,而克莱斯勒汽车公司虽已关闭了部分工厂以及削减了成本,却仍在垂死挣扎

GM is making money but Chrysler, although it has closed factories and slashed costs, is struggling.

这头牲口费了很大的劲,终于跪起来了;即使在垂死挣扎之中,它的头和脖子却还能隐隐略略显示出一种高贵的美。

The animal, with a great effort, had managed to get to its knees; and even in its last degrading agony, it showed the traces of a noble beauty in head and neck.

它是瑞克•卡鲁索开发区流行的一个标志,同时也是传统的购物中心凄凉未来的象征,附近其他购物中心的业主为了阻止瑞克•卡鲁索的入侵,正做着垂死挣扎

It is a sign of the popularity of his developments, as well as the bleak future of conventional malls, that the owners of nearby shopping centres are fighting hard to stop him.