race是什么意思

详细释义

• 0 a competition in which all the competitors try to be the fastest and to finish first -- 賽跑，速度競賽

  • Do you know who won/lost the race? 你知道比賽誰贏／輸了嗎？

  • Let's have a swimming race. 讓我們比一比看誰遊得快。

  • They're taking part in a race to the top of Mont Blanc. 他們將參加攀登白朗峰的比賽。

  • Kieran and Andrew are in a race for promotion. 基蘭和安德魯為得到升職的機會而展開競爭。

  • [ + to infinitive ] Three newspapers are involved in a race to publish the story. 三家報紙都爭相發表這篇報道。

  • Another candidate has now entered the presidential race (= the attempt to be elected as president). 另一個候選人現在也加入了競選總統的行列。

  • Finishing this project by December is going to be a race against time/the clock (= an attempt to finish fast within a time limit). 要在12月之前完成這個工程，那就要分秒必爭。

  • He often has a day at the races. 他經常抽出一天時間去看賽馬會。

• 1 a group, especially of people, with particular similar physical characteristics, who are considered as belonging to the same type, or the fact of belonging to such a group -- 人種，種族

  • People of many different races were living side by side. 許多不同種族的人生活在一起。

  • Discrimination on grounds of race will not be tolerated. 不能容忍種族歧視。

  • An increasing number of people in the country are of mixed race (= with parents of different races). 這個國家人口中混血兒的人數越來越多。

  • The British are an island race. 英國人是個島國民族。

• 2 to (cause to) compete in a race -- （使）參加比賽；與…比賽

  • He has been racing for over ten years. 他已經有10年多的賽齡了。

  • I used to race (against) him when we were boys. 小的時候，我就經常和他賽跑。

  • He's racing three of his dogs on Saturday. 星期六他將讓他的三隻狗參加賽狗。

• 3 to move or go fast -- （使）快速移動（或行進；（使）疾走（或疾馳；（使）快速奔跑

  • He raced down the street. 他在街上飛奔。

  • The ambulance raced (= quickly took) the injured to a nearby hospital. 救護車把傷者迅速送到附近的一間醫院。

  • The summer seems to have raced by (= passed very quickly). 夏天好像轉眼就過去了。

  • He raced the car engine (= made it work faster than it needed to) as he sat impatiently at the traffic lights. 等候紅綠燈時，他不耐煩地坐在車裡，讓汽車引擎瘋狂地空轉。