rat race

基本解釋

This tiny harbour town is the perfect spot for people wanting to get away from the rat race, but not from the human race.
這個(gè)港口小鎮(zhèn)是那些想從激烈競(jìng)爭(zhēng)的生活中解脫出來，而又不想遠(yuǎn)離人群的人們選擇休息的完美地點(diǎn)。
If you are sleep deprived you are going to be at a severe handicap in your quest to escape the rat race and live the life of your dreams.
如果你存在睡眠障礙，那麼你所追尋的遠(yuǎn)離激烈競(jìng)爭(zhēng)、過上夢(mèng)寐以求生活的理想就會(huì)遇到嚴(yán)重的障礙。
Believing that “mind like water” results from a productivity systems that obsessively organizes our external reality only perpetuates the rat race.
相信“心若止水”會(huì)來自針對(duì)外部生活的，有組織的傚率系統(tǒng)，衹能延續(xù)老鼠賽跑的現(xiàn)狀。

Not only those of the rat race, all human beings.
不僅僅是實(shí)騐小白鼠，所有人類都是。
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If you talk about getting out of the rat race, you mean leaving a job or way of life in which people compete aggressively with each other to be successful.