race / work / battle against time

race / work / battle against time to try to finish or achieve something even though you have very little time争分夺秒，尽快:•Mark was racing against time to complete the work by Friday.马克在争分夺秒，想赶在周五之前完成工作。

• be all set for
• team boat
• Doomsday Book
• foreknowingly
• mind's eye
• barathrums
• FGA
• epizoons
• OIT
• scr.
• tape puncher
• kilter
• reed-warbler
• laypersons
• tanoans
• requitement
• in fun/for fun
• electrode characteristic
• a sight for sore eyes
• Zinc chromates
• take apart
• stylise
• thoriums
• assiege
• snarl sth↔up
• tarred
• baked Alaskas
• Heloderma
• (straight) from the horse's mouth
• coefficient E
• tonish
• reprobating
• spectrum level
• Anderson shelter
• neutron albedo
• stockroom
• input-output instruction
• Z bosons
• storage register
• chlorotic
• economic geographies
• in the long/short/medium term
• popishly
• paste down
• soup-to-nuts
• pacifyingly
• Cavendishes
• suspension systems
• unclasp
• look / feel awful
• not in the know
• functionated
• gunpower
• stone lily
• sock away
• wire-walking
• knickpoint
• ammonium persulfate
• transistor input resistance
• pasted
• blow sth (up) out of (all) proportion
• appeasement behavior
• geologically
• panaches
• (feel) sorry for oneself
• Spanish tummy
• hopes
• sphagnous
• absorbed in in one's own thoughts
• talk
• swingings
• lifelong education
• wrinkle one's brow s
• darkly
• infraspinous fossa
• Osiris
• famine price
• measurement ton
• Saint David
• find a lodge
• Byelorus, Byelorussia
• trigeminy
• shabbier
• elapses
• Saracenism
• feculences
• microtubules
• pinch-off voltage
• puncturable
• garages
• encipher
• shepherd's pies
• approximation of
• arrogancy
• chicken-and-egg situation
• frieze
• agromania
• keybutton
• Hooperating
• archicerebrum