rat-race

常见例句

Most people are sort of like all in a rat-race and scrabbling up together.
很多人都像是在一個你死我活的競爭中，擁擠在一起。
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.
如果我們保持每周七天二十四小時你死我活的競爭狀態，我們必然會汙染我們的內心世界，也會汙染外部空間。
In our rat-race culture, we too often witness young men and women choosing career paths which yield external recognition over those which they find intrinsically interesting.
在儅今競爭激烈的環境下，我們見証了太多的青年男女，他們選擇的往往是能夠贏得他人認可，而非自己發自內心感興趣的職業。

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
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