the rat race

音标发音

• 英式音标 [ˈræt ˌreɪs]
• 美式音标 [ˈræt ˌreɪs]
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基本解释

• 无休止的竞争
• 激烈的竞争

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英汉例句

双语例句

• I love all wild life, love being away from the rat-race.
  我喜欢所有野外的生命，喜欢远离那些你死我活的竞争。
• If we stay in the rat-race 24 hours, seven days a week, we are bound to pollute our inner space as well as the outer space.
  如果我们保持每周七天二十四小时你死我活的竞争状态，我们必然会污染我们的内心世界，也会污染外部空间。
• Got to get back to the rat race - I've got people coming to see me all afternoon.
  我非得回去搏斗了。 整个下午都有人要来看我。

权威例句

• When he tested the powder on mice they no longer ran up a steep incline to get a reward, nor tumbled down it in a stupor, but ran around, happy and alert, at the bottom, as if the rat-race did not exist.
  ECONOMIST: Leo Sternbach
• If you are ready to chuck your rat-race career for something in the boondocks, take inspiration from Life 2.0, by FORBES Publisher Rich Karlgaard.
  FORBES: The Spokane Arb Play
• Like a rat-race commuter, you can get dressed, have breakfast, say goodbye to the goldfish, then march out the door ready to conquer the world.
  FORBES: Why Your Home Office Should Be In The Backyard

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英英字典

剑桥英英字典

• a way of life in modern society, in which people compete with each other for power and money

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