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 -- 赛跑，速度竞赛

  • Do you know who won/lost the race? 你知道比赛谁赢／输了吗？

  • Let's have a swimming race. 让我们比一比看谁游得快。

  • They're taking part in a race to the top of Mont Blanc. 他们将参加攀登勃朗峰的比赛。

  • Kieran and Andrew are in a race for promotion. 基兰和安德鲁为得到升职的机会而展开竞争。

  • [ + to infinitive ] Three newspapers are involved in a race to publish the story. 三家报纸都争相发表这篇报道。

  • Another candidate has now entered the presidential race (= the attempt to be elected as president). 另一个候选人现在也加入了竞选总统的行列。

  • 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月之前完成这个工程，那就得分秒必争。

  • He often has a day at the races. 他经常抽出一天时间去看赛马会。

• 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 -- 人种，种族

  • People of many different races were living side by side. 许多不同种族的人生活在一起。

  • Discrimination on grounds of race will not be tolerated. 不能容忍种族歧视。

  • An increasing number of people in the country are of mixed race (= with parents of different races). 这个国家人口中混血儿的人数越来越多。

  • The British are an island race. 英国人是个岛国民族。

• 2 to (cause to) compete in a race -- （使）参加比赛；与…比赛

  • He has been racing for over ten years. 他已经有10年多的赛龄了。

  • I used to race (against) him when we were boys. 小的时候，我就经常和他赛跑。

  • He's racing three of his dogs on Saturday. 星期六他将让他的3条狗参加赛狗。

• 3 to move or go fast -- （使）快速移动（或行进）；（使）疾走（或疾驰）；（使）快速奔跑

  • He raced down the street. 他在街上飞奔。

  • The ambulance raced (= quickly took) the injured to a nearby hospital. 救护车把伤者迅速送到附近的一家医院。

  • The summer seems to have raced by (= passed very quickly). 夏天好像转眼就过去了。

  • He raced the car engine (= made it work faster than it needed to) as he sat impatiently at the traffic lights. 等候红绿灯时，他不耐烦地坐在车里，让汽车发动机疯狂地空转。