a rat race

基本解释

Most people are sort of like all in a rat-race and scrabbling up together.
很多人都像是在一個你死我活的競爭中，擁擠在一起。
If we stay in the rat-race 24 hours, seven days a week, we are bound to pollute our inner space as well as the outer space.
如果我們保持每周七天二十四小時你死我活的競爭狀態，我們必然會汙染我們的內心世界，也會汙染外部空間。
In other words, the rodents were now cognitively predisposed to keep doing the same things over and over, to run laps in the same dead-ended rat race rather than seek a pipeline to greener sewers.
換句話說，齧齒類今朝被以爲天賦喜歡一再的做同一件事，他們會在同一個作古衚同似的年夜鼠田逕場上跑圈而不樂意探求一個通往更便利的下水道処的輸油琯道。

Like a rat-race commuter, you can get dressed, have breakfast, say goodbye to the goldfish, then march out the door ready to conquer the world.
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When he tested the powder on mice they no longer ran up a steep incline to get a reward, nor tumbled down it in a stupor, but ran around, happy and alert, at the bottom, as if the rat-race did not exist.
ECONOMIST: Leo Sternbach