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rat-race

解释

n. 事业竞争；商业竞争

※ 提供单词"rat-race"的中文意思、发音示范及音标对照，中英文词源、例句和用法等。

英文词源

rat-race (n.): also rat race, 1934 in reference to aviation training, from rat (n.) + race (n.1). Rat-run is from 1870 in a literal sense.
A rat race is ... a simple game of "follow the leader" in fighter planes. The leader does everything he can think of -- Immelmanns, loops, snap rolls, and turns, always turns, tighter and tighter. ["Popular Science," May 1941]
Meaning "competitive struggle" is from 1945.

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例句和用法

1. If I don't send a picture, he will smell a rat.: 如果我不寄出照片，他将有所察觉。

2. They were accused of encouraging children to rat on their parents.: 他们被指控唆使儿童告发自己的父母。

3. The brown rat has prominent ears and a long scaly tail.: 那只棕鼠两只耳朵向前支着，一条长尾巴布满鳞片。

4. Captain Hardnose certainly ran that rat over the hill.: 哈得诺思上尉当然要求那个告密者离职了.

5. The lab assistant injected the rat with the new drug.: 实验室助手给老鼠注射了那种新药.