[{"role": "user", "content": "I'm reading a story about a character who's in a desperate situation and I'd love to know how to express that in Italian, so could you please help me translate the sentence 'Tom was drowning' into Italian?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "The translation of 'Tom was drowning' in Italian is 'Tom stava affogando'. This sentence effectively conveys the desperate situation of the character in your story."}]