The Race to the Top competition will look for states and local school systems with effective reforms in four areas.

VOA: special.2009.07.30

It seeks distinction, the desire to be first in the race of life and lead us to seek to dominate others.

它追寻区别，渴望成为人生赛跑中的第一名,并引导我们寻求主宰他人。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

And both consist of either riding round the big arena and doing jumps in a race or

这两种要么是绕着大型竞技场骑马，做跳跃比赛，要么是

知道马球吗？ - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

The census form asks ten questions, including the number of people living in each house, their ethnic group and race.

VOA: special.2010.05.07

We have a strained image of the composition of the poem at its very outset and we have an image of someone writing as if he were participating in a race.

如果一开始我们就对诗歌的创作有一种不友善的印象,那么我们就会对诗人有一种印象,就好像他正在参加一场竞赛。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

The Harlem Renaissance was a period in which black artists explored their culture and showed pride in their race.

VOA: special.2009.02.22

To keep that conception in regard to decent race relations alive and growing has been the aspiration of generation after generation in many an American family, judging by my own and by those I know.

美国世世代代,都憧憬这一种理想,那就是保持,广博开放的胸襟，来正确面对种族问题。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Her latest book is called "The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama."

VOA: special.2009.10.12

There were people who spoke about the Greek race, or similar races, for quite a long time in the science of anthropology and subjects like that.

在人类学之类的学科中,有人曾讨论过,关于希腊的族裔或相近的族群的论题,并为此花费了许多的时间

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

"I firmly believe it is in Iran's interest not to develop nuclear weapons, because it would trigger a nuclear arms race in the Middle East and be profoundly destabilizing in all sorts of ways."

VOA: special.2009.05.23

Or, if you go to Nimes in the south of France, you'll see boulevards that people race motorcycles around all the time and they keep you up all night.

或者去法国南部的尼姆,你会看到身边的林荫大道,总有人在进行摩托车比赛,让你整晚都不能入睡

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

Several Bluegrass and Americana performers are in the race for Best Country Instrumental Performance beside the Steve Wariner song "Producer's Medley."

VOA: standard.2010.01.24

So when you put together the race risk that was highest if-- you may remember in the Mexican-Americans, and with the gender risk, higher rates in women, you'd expect the rates to be especially high in Mexican-American women, and in fact, that's what you find.

将有最高患病风险的种族,记得是墨西哥裔美国人,结合患病风险较高的女性,我们会预想墨西哥裔女性,患病的风险会特别高,而事实上这也是研究得到的结果

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

The death toll continues to rise as rescue workers race to save those trapped in the rubble, and there are fears it could rise into the thousands.

VOA: standard.2009.10.01

had a race to make fire and make s'mores between like the teams in our class.

班里分成几队，然后比赛谁能最快生火与做果塔饼干。

又有趣又奇特的课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Then,Question 9 asks about race. Rocha and Garza tell Latinos to check their race as 'American Indian' and to write in their tribal affiliation in the space provided.

VOA: standard.2010.04.05

We are the oddballs in the history of the human race, and anybody who follows our pattern, and it's important to realize that because there's nothing inevitable about the development that has come about to be characteristic of the world.

我们美国人,以及其他与我们采用同一政体的国家,是人类历史中的异类,明白这一点很重要,因为这个世界发展的规律就是,没有什么是必然的

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Allegations of marital infidelity have livened up the governor's race in South Carolina, where a field of Democrats and Republicans is vying to replace Republican Governor Mark Sanford.

VOA: standard.2010.06.08

The controversial but still powerful Afghan political figure flew home from Turkey on Monday and immediately lent support to President Karzai, which could be critical in the multi-candidate presidential race.

VOA: standard.2009.08.17

Many Senate Republicans say they are troubled by the remark, as it suggests the federal appeals court judge is inclined to consider race and gender in judicial decisions rather than adhering to an impartial application of the law.

VOA: standard.2009.05.31

Sullivan,who also served as dean of the historically African-American Morehouse College School of Medicine, says medical schools are beginning to incorporate this concept in educating and training the next generation of health care professionals, regardless of their race.

VOA: standard.2010.03.05