It was arealrace againsttimeto get all thecostumessewnfor theplay.
Hefoundthree 400metreraces in twodayshard going.
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head-to-head
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Competing and contending (non-sporting)
Horse racing
racenoun(PEOPLE)
C1[C]
one of themaingroupsto whichpeopleare oftenconsideredtobelong,basedonphysicalcharacteristicsthat they areperceivedtosharesuch asskincolour,eyeshape, etc.:
People of many different races werelivingsidebyside.许多不同种族的人生活在一起。
[U]
theideathatpeoplecan bedividedinto differentgroupsbasedonphysicalcharacteristicsthat they areperceivedtosharesuch asskincolour,eyeshape, etc., or thedividingofpeoplein this way:
Discrimination ongroundsof race will not betolerated.不能容忍种族歧视。
What they don'trealizeis that theseissuestranscend(=riseabove)race. Anyone can beaffected.
It was arealrace againsttimeto get all thecostumessewnfor theplay.
Hefoundthree 400metreraces in twodayshard going.
racenoun(PEOPLE)
C1[CorU]
agroup,especiallyofpeople, withparticularsimilarphysicalcharacteristics, who areconsideredasbelongingto the sametype, or thefactofbelongingto such agroup
人种，种族
People of many different races werelivingsidebyside.许多不同种族的人生活在一起。
Discrimination ongroundsof race will not betolerated.不能容忍种族歧视。
Anincreasingnumberofpeoplein thecountryare ofmixedrace(= withparentsof different races).这个国家人口中混血儿的人数越来越多。
[C,+ sing/pl verb]
agroupofpeoplewhosharethe samelanguage,history,characteristics, etc.
民族
The British are anislandrace.英国人是个岛国民族。
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Sheteachesthestudentsto haverespectfor different races andappreciatethediversityof othercultures.
Primitive racescolonizedtheseislands2000yearsago.
People should not bestigmatizedon thebasisof race.
Today, many Americans are stillgrapplingwith theissueof race.
Discrimination on thebasisof race,gender,ageordisabilityis notallowed.
Idiom
play the race card
race
verb
uk/reɪs/us/reɪs/
raceverb(COMPETITION)
B1[IorT]
to (causeto)competein a race
（使）参加比赛；与…比赛
He has been racing for over tenyears.他已经有10年多的赛龄了。
I used to race(against)him when we wereboys.小的时候，我就经常和他赛跑。
He's racing three of hisdogsonSaturday.星期六他将让他的3条狗参加赛狗。
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Lasttimeshe raced against the Brazilian, shewonby awhisker.
Hecollectsvintagecars, which he racesoccasionally.
They raced against each other tosettlethebet.
He was racing against several moreexperiencedrunners.
Forreligiousreasons, she will not race on Sundays.
To be more precise, he runs away from the law by defiantly refusing to win theraceas the favourite competitor.
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Overall, the clines tended to be wider the further they were from theracecentre.
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Parties and politicians routinely collect data on voters and use this information to target particular races, compose appeals to the electorate, and contact voters directly.
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But, unlike them, she recognizesraceeven as she seeks to transcend it.
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It should also look into the issue whether regulatory competition is really araceand if so what do we mean by that.
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Or should they help and support each other andraceto the top standards?
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By this time the statistics were not broken down byrace(although, interestingly, the tribal breakdown remained).
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In addition to these factors, we also examineraceand insurance status.
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The blurring of partisan lines on key national issues (likeraceand the role of government in society) enables this cross-party voting.
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The choice among all the actions that are simultaneously enabled at the same state is governed by theracepolicy.
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Cross-cutting subject areas include children and the family, disability, gender, mental health, old age,race/ethnicity and young people.
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This paradox was resolved in various ways by different theorists: polygenism and theories of races as biologically distinct subspecies arose to maintain hegemonic hierarchies.
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The data were then re-examined in the light of the phylogenetic analysis by identifying the races to which the individuals used in the study belonged.
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Thus, this dataset represents the closest thing to a universe of advertisements that exists for these races.
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The redemption of the entire humanracefrom eternal death hinged on pain.
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Collocationswithrace
race
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alien race
People will almost certainly want to communicate with analienraceif we know it exists.
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bicycle race
What race meeting, what point-to-point meeting, does not involve the police controlling the traffic on the roads for a long period—much longer than for abicyclerace?
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canoe race
Like many of the races, thecanoeracedivides itself into two age groups.
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