a rat race

基本解釋

Most people are sort of like all in a rat-race and scrabbling up together.
很多人都像是在一個(gè)你死我活的競(jìng)爭(zhēng)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(shí)你死我活的競(jìng)爭(zhēng)狀態(tài)，我們必然會(huì)污染我們的內(nèi)心世界，也會(huì)污染外部空間。
In other words, the rodents were now cognitively predisposed to keep doing the same things over and over, to run laps in the same dead-ended rat race rather than seek a pipeline to greener sewers.
換句話說(shuō)，嚙齒類今朝被以為天賦喜歡一再的做同一件事，他們會(huì)在同一個(gè)作古胡同似的年夜鼠田徑場(chǎng)上跑圈而不樂(lè)意探求一個(gè)通往更便利的下水道處的輸油管道。

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.
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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