rat race

rat race什么意思,rat race翻译

基本解释

n.: （大城市里为财富、权力等的）疯狂竞争
网络: 亡命夺宝；激烈的竞争；亡命寻宝

权威解释

• （大城市里为财富、权力等的）疯狂竞争，你死我活的竞争:

  the way of life of people living and working in a large city where people compete in an aggressive way with each other in order to be more successful, earn more money, etc.

英汉解释

• 单机跟进空域练习

• 疯狂竞争

• 环形波导

• 激烈竞争

• 出卖

• 〔美俚〕费神的日常工作

例句

• Jim was the winner in a rat race, and he was promoted to be the director of the marketing department.

  吉姆在激烈的竞争中胜出，他被提拔为市场部主任。

• Man, look at the time! Almost two o"clock! Got to get back to the rat race - I"ve got people coming to see me all afternoon.

  咳，看看都什么时间了！快到两点了。我非得回去战斗了。下午有人要来见我。

• They also aspire to a higher place in society"s pecking order, but in so doing force others in the rat race to run faster to keep up.

  他们渴望能得到更高的社会地位，但这么做使得别人不得不在这场激烈的竞争中跑得更快来跟上他们。

• He spent 10 years working in a paper mill in Melbourne. "I got sick of the rat race, " he said. "So I decided to come home. "

  他在墨尔本的造纸厂工作了十年。“我厌倦那种没完没了的竞争，”他说。“所以我决定回家。”

• Dad wants to get out of the rat race and move back to his hometown.

  父亲想离开无休无止的竞争，回到他的故乡

• As I said, getting out of the rat race is technically easy. It doesn"t take much education, but those doubts are cripples for most people.

  正如我所说，摆脱“老鼠赛跑”的生活在技术上讲是十分容易的，这不需要接受太多教育，可那些顾虑使得大多数人寸步难行。

• Although no one is happy to have their pay cut, many seem to like a brief break from the rat race.

  虽然没人愿意让自己的薪金缩水，但是很多人从你死我活的竞争中偷了一会闲。

• My father wasn"t too keen on the idea of being back in the rat race, but I assured him that this time it would be nothing like that.

  我的父亲对再做夸父追日的想法不怎么感冒，但我向他保证了这次不会再像那样了。

• After Nigel left his academic post and went into business, it took him quite a while adjust to the rat race.

  奈杰尔弃学从商后，过了很长时期才使他适应于那种竞争激烈的环境。

• This reason alone is potent enough to force anyone to join the rat race and invest years of their lives into corporate ladder climberism.

  这个原因本身就已经足够强力地强迫任何人参加激烈的竞争，投入一年又一年的精力到不断向上爬的晋升制中。