1A competition between runners, horses, vehicles, boats, etc., to see which is the fastest in covering a set course.

1. 1.1the races A series of races for horses or dogs, held at a fixed time on a set course.
   大赛（定期定点举行的系列赛马或赛狗会）
   Example sentencesExamples

   • We have a clear vision of what our goals are and are feeling motivated to work hard this winter in preparation for the races.
   • Our ten grand prize finalists and their guests were treated to a VIP day at the races, each excited by the fact that they were in with a one in ten chance of winning a sleek new car.
   • I bet he's down at the races right now in fact instead of here talking to you people.
   • But, despite entering all the races, he couldn't steer home a winner and it proved a costly day out for those punters that stuck with the local man.
   • This ride has been a huge part of our preparation for the races over the past several years.
   • For many, the day was a chance to have a family trip out and children seemed to be enjoying the excitement of the races as much as the adults and some were even picking out winners.
   • They are light-hearted, and evoke both the excitement of the races and the happiness of the rare sun in England's cloudy climate.
   • I was determined not to get sucked into it, but we'd already been out all night and most of the afternoon at the races and somehow… well, it seemed the logical next step.
   • In 1869, for example, a secret camera was set up on Derby Day, to take photographs of gentlemen visiting the races with ladies other than their wives.
   • My first trip to the races was probably one of the most fun trips for me.
   • Everyone enjoyed the fun and excitement of the races.
   • Currently in Australia, online gambling is mostly confined to wagering, a flutter on the races or sports betting.
   • The idea should be to advertise to potential fans, not to the ones who already are watching the races.
   • We took him home that afternoon before the races started.
   • It was a day for the whole family as old friends used the event as a chance to catch up over the festive break and watch the excitement of the races.
   • The association fears the races will either have to be scaled down to an invitation race in September or cancelled completely for lack of funds.
   • Thursday was Ladies Day and, after a very wet morning, it was a handsome afternoon at the races.
   • Even the rain did not dampen the appetites of visitors, who have indulged in the traditional chief activities of the races - eating and drinking.
   • It describes a lifetime, Mick's own lifetime, spent attending the races and punting on dogs and horses with varying degrees of success.
   • There were great parties and much jubilation at the races on Thursday afternoon and a good time was had by one and all.
2. 1.2in singular A situation in which individuals or groups compete to be first to achieve a particular objective.
   竞赛，竞争
   the race for nuclear power

   核竞赛。

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   • In 1964, the city got to cast electoral votes in the presidential race for the first time.
   • The offence went unpunished and possession was lost and in the race to get back Nick Carter made a desperate tackle and was sin-binned.
   • The race for the Democratic presidential nomination is becoming more nasty.
   • The race for the Oscars is about to reach fever pitch.
   • The race to land a human on the Moon may be over, but the race to discover and tap its resources is just beginning.
   • At the moment, the women are also ensconced in their Third Division, and the race is on to see which squad can secure promotion first.
   • Let me tell you: in 1965, the Soviets were ahead in the race to the Moon.
   • But the focus now shifts to the race for the three vice-presidential slots, the next level down.
   • There will also be a race for the deputy leadership.
   • Biotechnology investments are soaring worldwide, fuelling the race for patents.
   • The Cold War turned the race to reach the moon into a battle of ideological honour.
   • On the 10th day before Christmas… the race for the Christmas number one record begins.
   • Since there are no national campaigns, these governor's races are going to be watched intently.
   • In fact, this presidential race is, by far, the most expensive in American history.
   • The area is crowded with vendors, big and small, all jockeying for position in the race to gain market share.
   • By then it was apparent that the Soviets would lose the race to the Moon.
   • Yes, and in fact in every presidential race there's always a candidate whose honesty is refreshing.
   • The race for that last Champions League spot will be exciting all the way to the finish.
   • There have been many books about Apollo, a high proportion by the contestants in the race to the moon.
   • The Democrats have five states where they don't have an incumbent seat up, so it's a huge race for them.
   • Back then, the moon race touched virtually every aspect of life.

   Synonyms

   competition, contest, rivalry, contention, quest
3. 1.3archaic The course of the sun or moon through the heavens.
   〈古〉（日或月的）行程，历程

2A strong or rapid current flowing through a narrow channel in the sea or a river.

在波涛汹涌的急浪中钓金枪鱼。

3A water channel, especially one built to lead water to or from a point where its energy is utilized, as in a mill or mine.

4A smooth ring-shaped groove or guide in which a ball bearing or roller bearing runs.

1no object Compete with another or others to see who is fastest at covering a set course or achieving an objective.

兽医采了血样之后马匹才进行比赛。

1. 1.1 Compete regularly in races as a sport or leisure activity.
   定期参加运动（或休闲）比赛活动
   the next year, he raced again for the team

   次年，他又代表该队参加了比赛。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • Persian Punch first raced in the Jockey Club Cup in 1996 when he finished third.
   • In Champ cars we race on road courses, street tracks and ovals and the guy that can cope best on all types of track will take the title.
   • For the past two years, he has run in the IRL Infinite Pro Series, where he raced strictly on oval courses.
   • He is still racing regularly and has no plans to retire.
   • Petty says the group of drivers he raced with elevated the sport to a new level.
   • The dark bay son of Saint Ballado finished unplaced in both his career starts and has not raced since March 2002.
   • His 45 ft yacht is docked in the Hamble, and raced regularly at Cowes Week and in the Mediterranean.
   • Crump, born in Bristol when his father was racing here, was raised in the sport with superstars like Barry Briggs as role models.
   • Instantly, the Utah native fell in love with the sport and began racing soon after.
   • Before the VSCC's seven-year absence from Oulton, the club raced there regularly for 50 years.
   • He also had raced at Mountaineer Race Track and at Thistledown, riding 19 total winners.
   • Until 2002 Radcliffe used to be an enthusiastic regular on the European grand prix circuit, racing over a variety of distances.
   • Blind member Derek Pritchard, has raced regularly this year.
   • The horse in question, racing in India under the name China Man, was disqualified from the victory.
   • Drivers race at such places for the love of the sport, and pit crews are largely a volunteer effort.
2. 1.2with object Prepare and enter (an animal or vehicle) in races as a sport or leisure activity.
   定期参加运动（或休闲）比赛活动
   he raced his three horses simply for the fun of it

   他让他的三匹马参加比赛纯粹是为了娱乐。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • I've always raced motorcycles in some form or another, but I've always liked drag racing.
   • He races a horse called Thunder Time, in company with several other people.
   • Derby is often viewed as a dilettante leader who would rather have been racing his horses at Newmarket than taking part in debates at Westminster.
   • The event had a mixture of modern and classic cars and everything from Bentleys to Formula One vehicles were raced.
   • The last time I raced a front-wheel-drive car was a Mini in 1962 so I'm very much a rank outsider which is an ideal position to be in.
   • He said he plans to race his new filly, who was consigned by Bridlewood Farm.
   • European horses are pampered and raced too lightly!
   • As a lad, he used to race bikes and his brother blessed him with the name of Bob-man, which has stuck like glue ever since.
   • Sumek, whose family owns Lenco transmissions, has raced the car sporadically the last couple of years.
   • Martin began racing stock cars at 15 on dirt tracks near his home in Batesville, Ark.
   • Whether you would rather race touring cars around Brands Hatch or hop Baja Beetles over rough dirt tracks, the choice is yours.
   • I have Ford fans come up to me all the time and tell me they can't believe I'm out here racing this car.
   • Stidham conditions Culinary for owner Jack H. Smith III Thoroughbreds, which also raced her sire.
   • From this was born the tradition of dragon boat racing, as people living in South China made it an annual event, racing boats to commemorate that day.
   • Basildon police are monitoring an internet website which they believe is responsible for more than 200 cruisers racing their cars at an industrial estate in the town.
   • Venetia Williams' eight-year-old has been lightly raced this season, but is a very talented mare in this company.
   • Roden then decided to race a car in the Ferrari Challenge Series in 2000.
   • He has been racing this car for three years now and knows it inside out.
   • The club was going to race the car, but liability issues quashed that idea for most of the members.
   • Black inner-city cowboys have been racing their horses at the Speedway since before even the old-timers can remember.

2no object, with adverbial Move or progress swiftly or at full speed.

我急忙奔进屋内。

〈喻〉她侃侃而谈，脑子却飞快作进一步思考。

1. 2.1 Operate or cause to operate at excessive speed.
   with object she'd driven like a madwoman, racing the engine and swerving around corners

   她驾车狂奔，遇拐角急转弯，开得就像疯女人似的。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • While sitting on the bike and racing the engine, he felt the motorcycle accidentally slipping into gear.
   • Kevin's Kurdish driver, Adnan, had raced his engine and clogged up the carburetor of his Nissan.
   • The driver simply races the engine, trying harder to get away.
2. 2.2 (of a person's heart or pulse) beat faster than usual because of fear or excitement.
   （人的心脏或脉搏因害怕或激动）加快跳动
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   • He took a step forward, his heart racing with excitement and fear.
   • He woke up with his heart racing at 200 beats a minute and was rushed to hospital.
   • His heart was racing with excitement, and he tried to think rapidly if he had anything planned for the day.
   • It's the sort of night that really gets your heart beating and your pulse racing.
   • I had a pain in my leg, thought nothing of it, took some aspirin, went to bed, woke up about an hour and a half later with my heart racing at about 250 beats a minute.
   • My stomach didn't jump and I wasn't excited, but my pulse was racing with nervousness.
   • Isabella watched him curiously as she stood across from him, her pulse and heart racing.
   • My temples are thumping, my pulse is racing, and I'm starting to shake, visibly.
   • She looked towards the door, her heart racing with fear.
   • Three days later, she became lightheaded, felt her heart racing, and returned to the hospital.
   • I stopped pacing and started running feebly, my heart now racing in fear, the sounds in the woods growing incredibly loud and frightening.
   • Her heart was racing, and she could feel her blood pulsing through her veins.
   • Deep blue eyes stare at me, cold and hard, and my heart is racing with fear.
   • The patient explained that she was not really nervous - she just could not quit shaking, and she felt her heart racing on and off.
   • Call if your child feels as if his heart is racing or skipping a beat.
   • Steven's heard raced, of course someone would have mentioned this!
   • But imagine being in a situation where out of the blue, your heart starts racing so fast that it can't pump blood around your body properly.
   • I slid to the ground, my heart racing and the adrenaline pulsing through my system.
   • My heart is racing, from excitement and the first 2-mile climb.
   • My heart raced again as I felt his bare knee touching my own.

   Synonyms

   beat rapidly, pound, throb, pulsate, pulse, thud, thump, hammer, palpitate, flutter, pitter-patter, go pit-a-pat, quiver, vibrate, pump, pant, thrill

1Each of the major divisions of humankind, having distinct physical characteristics.

Although ideas of race are centuries old, it was not until the 19th century that attempts to systematize racial divisions were made. Ideas of supposed racial superiority and social Darwinism reached their culmination in Nazi ideology of the 1930s and gave pseudoscientific justification to policies and attitudes of discrimination, exploitation, slavery, and extermination. Theories of race asserting a link between racial type and intelligence are now discredited. Scientifically it is accepted as obvious that there are subdivisions of the human species, but it is also clear that genetic variation between individuals of the same race can be as great as that between members of different races

所有种族、肤色和信仰的人。

1. 1.1 The fact or condition of belonging to a racial division or group; the qualities or characteristics associated with this.
   种族归属；种族气质，特征
   people of mixed race

   混种人。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • The absence of meaningful dialogue at the national level about the role of race in teacher quality is perplexing.
   • I'd raised a little hell about the way the newspaper identified people by race.
   • The term racial discrimination denotes all forms of differential behaviour based on race.
   • We found, in fact, that the teachers repeatedly shifted the focus from race to socioeconomic status.
   • The researchers also found discrepancies based on race and economic status.
   • They belong to everyone without distinction as to sex, marital status, race or nationality.
   • I think that America is still struggling with the question of race and racial other.
   • People of European origin, Asians, and people of mixed race enjoy the best standard of living.
   • In particular they need young men and people from ethnic minorities and mixed race to join.
   • He wishes to claim that in this society sex is a more fundamental fact about people than race.
   • It is possible that a study of gender and race might reveal that racial identity was more muted and class affinity bolder.
   • One of the men is described as possibly Asian, or mixed race with a pale complexion.
   • The report identifies wide variations in survival associated with race and ethnicity.
   • Racism is the spurious belief that human characteristics and abilities are determined by race or ethnic origin.
   • Like gender, race and racial discourse played a key role in the health discourse.
   • He persistently locates race and racial identity within the social relations of production between groups.
   • People of mixed race are being excluded from society and face prejudice from both sides.
   • The punishments for violating the statute did not vary by condition, but by race and gender.
   • On the other hand, it also means that many whites simply don't know the facts about race today.
   • My earliest recollection of race is seeing the racial differences between me and some of my family members.

   Synonyms

   ethnic group, racial type, origin, ethnic origin
2. 1.2 A group of people sharing the same culture, history, language, etc.; an ethnic group.
   （具有相同文化、历史和语言等特征的）种族，群体；族群
   we Scots were a bloodthirsty race then

   我们苏格兰人那时是一个嗜血的民族。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • Christina had thought the German Swiss a hard unsympathetic race.
   • They sought to weld the country's diverse ethnicities into a Brazilian race defined in historical and cultural terms.
   • For Barres, this constituted a menace to the French nation, indeed to the French race, for it was a German ideology.
   • We Scots might be handsome but, as a race, we're not renowned for our height.
   • We are trying to find out why the British as a race find it amazingly funny to take their clothes off.

   Synonyms

   people, nation

   ethnic group, racial type, origin, ethnic origin
3. 1.3 A group or set of people or things with a common feature or features.
   （具有共同特征的）一群（或一批）人（或物）
   the upper classes thought of themselves as a race apart

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   • He rejected environmental factors and claimed to have discovered a race of ‘born criminals’, who were marked out by certain cranial and facial irregularities.
   • Forget stockies or naturally reproducing brown trout, saltwater sea trout are a race apart.
   • They treat the elderly like they treat travellers or gays or ethnic groups or women or whoever as a race apart, not as normal citizens.
   • This sedentary behaviour is apparently turning our kids into a race of slothful fatties who risk a reduced lifespan and other problems.
   • They are not a race apart - it could happen to any one of us at any time.
   • As a matter of fact isn't ‘redneck’ a word used in disdain to describe a race and class of people?
   • And the Kembles, as one Victorian novelist's daughter observed, strode through the world as a race apart.

   Synonyms

   group, type, sort, class, kind, variety, ilk, genre, cast, style, brand, vintage, order, breed, species, generation
4. 1.4Biology A population within a species that is distinct in some way, especially a subspecies.
   〔生〕宗；族；品种（尤指亚种）
   people have killed so many tigers that two races are probably extinct

   人们大量捕杀老虎，有两个亚种可能已经灭绝。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • One accepted phylogeny classifies Rheidae as a family, with two species and several races.
   • Specimens identified as three separate species, based primarily on filament diameter and cell size, were determined to be polyploid races of a single species.
   • They find two distinct races of the gallfly, due to the adoption of a new host species of goldenrod.
   • This may be due, at least in part, to the differential sampling of races in the two subspecies, or it may reflect a real difference in allele frequencies.
   • Based on these specimens, the races of two species of buttonquail were revised and five new subspecies described.
   • The Mendelian genetics of mimetic color patterns in Heliconius have been well studied using crosses between races and species.
5. 1.5 (in nontechnical use) each of the major divisions of living creatures.
   〈非技〉族，类
   a member of the human race

   人类的一员。

   the race of birds

   鸟类。

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   • As humans we have eaten animals since the race began.
   • Individuals possess these capacities in varying degrees, but they are part of the universal genetic inheritance of the human race.
   • Here we have the attitude and spirit that can make it possible for the human race to grow together into a single family.
   • If only we could love one another and become as one in a race called humankind.
   • But it is a challenge for the human race to evolve into the next stage of our spiritual development.
   • From very early on in my childhood - four, five years old - I felt alien to the human race.
   • There are billions of people who are more than willing to do their part to propagate the human race.
   • That's merely a convention I decided upon as a means of differentiating humans from other races.
   • We'll be able to take a few little genes in a test tube, wipe out the human race or all other species.
   • There is also no scientific evidence known to me that the genetic differences we do discover among the human races have any influence at all on personality.
   • More than that, it was the first attempt to apply evolution explicitly to the human race.
   • God would also notice how the human race is destroying the life support system of the planet.
   • As for biodiversity, the most important species threatened with extinction today is the human race.
   • The human race is populous enough without trying to preserve every single life.
   • The ultimate goal of work is to provide a decent life for all members of the human race.
   • We're building a huge online database of how the human race looks at life, how it works, thinks and responds.
   • The human race no longer adapts through natural selection.
   • The race of plants, and the race of animals shrink under this great restrictive law.
   • What is the critical mass of humanity that it will take for all of the human race to evolve to its next level?
   • Penelope plays Harriet Jones, who becomes caught up in an alien plot to bring about the end of the human race.
6. 1.6literary A group of people descended from a common ancestor.
   〈诗/文〉（具有共同血统的）一群人
   a prince of the race of Solomon

   所罗门血统的王子。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • These racists believed that not all races of humans had descended from Adam and Eve.

   Synonyms

   family, line, lineage, house, dynasty, stock, blood, folk, clan, tribe
7. 1.7archaic Ancestry.
   〈古〉祖先；世系，血统，门第
   two coursers of ethereal race

   神马一族两骏骑。

A ginger root.