Race relations

Definition

race 1 /res/ n ၁။ ~ (against/with sb/sth); ~ (between A and B) (က) [C] အေျပးၿပိဳင္ပြဲ။ (ကားေမာင္း၊ ျမင္းစီး၊ ေလွေလွာ္စသည္) ၿပိဳင္ပြဲ။ (သို႔) အခ်ိန္လု လုပ္ရေသာကိစၥ။ to win/ lose/ run a race ❍ to come first/ second/ last in a race ❍ a horse-race ❍ a boat race ❍ a five-kilometre race ❍ Let's have a race to the end of the beach. ❍ ( fig ) The process of getting food to the starving villagers is now a race against time (ie an attempt to do or finish sth before a particular time). (ခ) the races [pl] ျမင္းၿပိဳင္ပြဲ။ ျမင္းပြဲ။ a day at the races. ❍ sport ၂။ [sing] ယွဥ္ၿပိဳင္အႏိုင္လုပြဲ။ join the race for the presidency ❍ The race is now on (ie has begun) to find a cure for this disease. See also ARMS RACE, RAT RACE v ၁။ ~ (against) sb/sth ယွဥ္ေျပးသည္။ ယွဥ္ေမာင္းသည္။ အေျပးၿပိဳင္သည္။ (သို႔) အေမာတေကာလိုက္သည္။ The drivers were racing against each other. ❍ The cars raced round the track. ❍ Come on, I'll race you to school (ie try to get there before you do). ❍ Manufacturers everywhere are racing to find substitutes for CFCs. ၂။ (က) ဒုန္းစိုင္းေျပးသည္။ တရိပ္ရိပ္ေျပးသည္။ He raced along the road. ❍ Thick white clouds raced across the sky. ❍ The days seemed to race past. ❍ He raced off to catch the train. ❍ run v (ခ) အျမန္ဆယ္ယူသည္။ The patient had to be raced to hospital. ၃။ (က) အေျပးၿပိဳင္ပြဲတြင္ ပါဝင္ ယွဥ္ၿပိဳင္သည္။ She races at all the big meetings. (ခ) တိရစၧာန္ခ်င္း၊ ယာဥ္ခ်င္း အျမန္ၿပိဳင္သည္။ race pigeons/ dogs ❍ race cars/bikes in rallies. ၄။ (ရင္ခုန္ႏႈန္း) အလြန္ ျမန္သည္။ Her heart was racing with excitement. ၅။ အျမန္လည္ပတ္သည္။ အေျပးအလႊားသြားသည္။ The driver waited for the green light, his engine racing. ❍ Her mind raced, running over the possibilities. ❏ race meeting n ( Brit ) ပြဲစဥ္ အမ်ားအျပားပါေသာ ျမင္းပြဲ။ (တစ္ရက္မက က်င္းပႏိုင္သည္။ ) ❏ racer n (က) ၿပိဳင္ျမင္း၊ ေလွ၊ ကားစသည္။ (ခ) အေျပးၿပိဳင္ပြဲ စသည္တြင္ ပါဝင္သူ။ ski racers. ❏ racing n [U] (က) ျမင္းပြဲ။ ၿပိဳင္ျမင္း။ a racing stable (ie for horses trained to race). See also FLAT-RACING (ခ) (usu in compounds) ယွဥ္ၿပိဳင္ စီးနင္းေမာင္းႏွင္ပြဲ။ Grand Prix motor racing ❍ a racing driver ❍ greyhound racing ❍ a racing car/yacht (ie designed for racing). race 2 /res/ n ၁။ [C, U] အသားအေရာင္၊ ဆံပင္အေရာင္၊ မ်က္လံုး မ်က္ဖန္၊ ႏွာေခါင္း စသည္အရ အမ်ဳိးအစား ခြဲျခားႏိုင္ေသာ လူအစု။ လူမ်ဳိး။ the Caucasian/ Mongolian race ❍ people of mixed race ❍ There should be no discrimination on the grounds of sex, race or religion. ၂။ [C] ယဥ္ေက်းမႈ၊ သမိုင္း၊ ဘာသာစကားတို႔အရ အေျခခံခ်င္းတူေသာ လူအစု။ လူမ်ဳိး။ the Spanish/ Germanic/ Nordic races. ၃။ [C] (အပင္၊ အေကာင္) မ်ဳိး။ breed a race of cattle that can survive drought. See also THE HUMAN RACE ၄။ [U] ( fml ) မ်ဳိး႐ိုး။ people of ancient and noble race. ❏ race relations n [pl] လူ႕အသိုင္းအဝိုင္း တစ္ခုအတြင္းရိွ လူမ်ဳိးအခ်င္းခ်င္း ဆက္ဆံမႈ။ attempts to improve race relations in our inner cities ❍ race relations legislation. ❏ race riot n လူမ်ဳိးေရး အဓိက႐ုဏ္း။

Examples

1. Training for a big race
2. A close/difficult/tough race
3. [win/lose a race] : Marlene needs to win the last race to retain her title.
4. [race for] : There are three main candidates in the race for the presidency.
5. [a race to do something] : We are losing the race to find a cure for AIDS.
6. [the race is on] : The race is on to save one of the country’s most endangered species.
7. We always enjoy a day at the races.
8. York Races
9. We do not discriminate on the basis of race or gender.