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.
这个港口小镇是那些想从激烈竞争的生活中解脱出来，而又不想远离人群的人们选择休息的完美地点。
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.
如果你存在睡眠障碍，那么你所追寻的远离激烈竞争、过上梦寐以求生活的理想就会遇到严重的障碍。
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”会来自针对外部生活的，有组织的效率系统，只能延续老鼠赛跑的现状。

Not only those of the rat race, all human beings.
不仅仅是实验小白鼠，所有人类都是。
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We dream of the day when we can say adios to the rat race.
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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.