1·To many people life is always a rat race.
对许多人来说，生活总是激烈的竞争。
2·The dance last night was a rat race. It was too noisy and crowded.
昨晚的舞会又吵又挤，简直是一团糟。
3·As much as I'd like to relax and enjoy my time there, it seems more like a rat race for me.
尽管我希望可以多享受一些轻松时刻，但是似乎就只是不停的劳碌奔波。
4·We are taught to believe that only by going to the best schools and getting the best grades can we escape the rat race and build a better future.
我们所受的教育告诉我们，只有上最好的学校，取得最好的成绩，才能从激烈的竞争中逃脱，创造更美好的未来。
5·I had to get out of the rat race and take a look at the real world again.
我必须退出这种你争我夺的生活，重新看看真实的世界。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
6·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。
7·Some people who’d like to have more of a social life are crushed by the rat race, or their own compounded fears which hold them back.
有些人想拥有更多的社会生活，但这些都被激烈的竞争给破坏了，或者因自身所产生的恐惧而望而却步。
8·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。
9·In our modern chaotic and rat race world, we are no longer sleeping in a naturally healthy manner.
在竞争激烈的当今社会，我们已经无法拥有一种自然健康的睡眠方式。
10·The Rat Race refers to a pattern ofbehavior where we work for a living but barely make any progress financially.
“老鼠赛跑”是指那种为了生活而拼命工作、却没有改善财务状况的人的生活行为模式。