•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 Ben Nevis.他们将参加攀登本尼维斯山的比赛。

•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 (= attempted 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，那就要分秒必争。

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

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•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。

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•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只狗参加赛狗。

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•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间医院。

•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，让汽车引擎疯狂地空转。

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•She was hot and sweaty and had a racing heart.她热得汗流浃背，心怦怦狂跳。

•A glimpse of his bare torso set my pulse racing.我瞥了一眼他赤裸的躯干，顿时感到血脉贲张。