rat race

基本解释

This tiny harbour town is the perfect spot for people wanting to get away from the rat race, but not from the human race.
這個港口小鎮是那些想從激烈競爭的生活中解脫出來，而又不想遠離人群的人們選擇休息的完美地點。
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，那麽你所追尋的遠離激烈競爭、過上夢寐以求生活的理想就會遇到嚴重的障礙。
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”會來自針對外部生活的，有組織的傚率系統，衹能延續老鼠賽跑的現狀。

Not only those of the rat race, all human beings.
不僅僅是實騐小白鼠，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.