In the rat race, they try every means to stay on the top, and the fear to lose the game inevitably wrecks their peace of mind.(在這種殘酷的競爭中，他們使出渾身解數力求成功，由于害怕在競爭中失敗而無法保持平和的心態。)

If we stay in the rat-race 24 hours, seven days a week, we are bound to pollute our inner space as well as the outer space.(如果我們保持每周七天二十四小時你死我活的競爭狀態，我們必然會污染我們的內心世界，也會污染外部空間。)

But You Should Escape The Rat race.(但你應該避開激烈的競爭。)

In our rat-race culture, we too often witness young men and women choosing career paths which yield external recognition over those which they find intrinsically interesting.(在當今競爭激烈的環境下，我們見證了太多的青年男女，他們選擇的往往是能夠贏得他人認可，而非自己發自內心感興趣的職業。)

I had to get out of the rat race and take a look at the real world again.(我必須退出這種你爭我奪的生活，重新看看真實的世界。)

If you want to escape the rat race you will have to reduce your working hours.(如果你想逃避異常激烈競爭，你就得減少工作時間。)

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”會來自針對外部生活的，有組織的效率系統，只能延續老鼠賽跑的現狀。)

As for the rat race, while different, it's faster than ever.(至于商業競爭，不同的是，它比以往更激烈了。)

What if lower-tier colleges and universities were the ticket to escaping the rat race?(如果低層次的學院和大學是逃避激烈競爭的門票呢？)

This tiny harbour town is the perfect spot for people wanting to get away from the rat race, but not from the human race.(這個港口小鎮是那些想從激烈競爭的生活中解脫出來，而又不想遠離人群的人們選擇休息的完美地點。)