垂死掙扎
垂死挣扎
seoi4 sei2 zang1 zaat3 to put up a last-ditch struggle
動詞
好苦惱噉考慮一個決定 to think hard (and indecisively) about a decision
我內心掙扎咗一陣，終於決定同佢表白。
我内心挣扎咗一阵，终于决定同佢表白。
ngo5 noi6 sam1 zang1 zaat3 zo2 jat1 zan6, zung1 jyu1 kyut3 ding6 tung4 keoi5 biu2 baak6. After thinking indecisively about it for a while, I finally decided to confess my feelings.
動詞
好辛苦噉嘗試克服困難 to struggle (to overcome difficulties)
The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not to win but to take part, just as the most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.
Seeing that the dog is in so much pain, we struggled whether to ask the doctor to give it a shot to allow it to pass away in peace.
Cantonese
挣扎
掙扎
zang1 zaat3
struggle
Examples (Wiktionary)
Mandarin
挣扎
掙扎
zhēng zhā
to struggle
Mandarin
现在，她就要走了，就在走的一刻，米籽心里却有点起毛，因为此刻的心情与她原先想像的有一点不同，她原以为憧憬了三年的流浪生涯一日迈步便将如“壮士一去不复返”般的慷慨，可真的将梦想兑换成现实的最后关头，却发现自己仍在作种种挣扎。
現在，她就要走了，就在走的一刻，米籽心裏卻有點起毛，因為此刻的心情與她原先想像的有一點不同，她原以為憧憬了三年的流浪生涯一日邁步便將如“壯士一去不復返”般的慷慨，可真的將夢想兑換成現實的最後關頭，卻發現自己仍在作種種掙扎。
xiàn zài ， tā jiù yào zǒu le ， jiù zài zǒu de yī kè ， mǐ zǐ xīn lǐ què yǒu diǎn qǐ máo ， yīn wèi cǐ kè de xīn qíng yǔ tā yuán xiān xiǎng xiàng de yǒu yī diǎn bù tóng ， tā yuán yǐ wèi chōng jǐng le sān nián de liú làng shēng yá yī rì mài bù biàn jiāng rú “ zhuàng shì yī qù bù fù fǎn ” bān de kāng kǎi ， kě zhēn de jiāng mèng xiǎng duì huàn chéng xiàn shí de zuì hòu guān tóu ， què fā xiàn zì jǐ réng zài zuò zhǒng zhǒng zhèng zhá ．
Now, she was about to leave. Right at the moment when she was leaving, Mizi got a little flustered in her heart because how she felt at this moment was different from how she originally imagined it. She had thought that once she stepped into the vagrant life she had been longing for for three years, she would have a big heart as "a warrior that goes without returning", but at the last critical point before her dream is exchanged for reality, she realized that she was still dealing with all sorts of struggles.