Mr Crake, who has won a similar race up the Empire State Building five times, won US$5,920 in prize money. 克勒克先生曾5次获得帝国大厦登高赛冠军,此次夺冠的奖金为5920美元。
Mr Crake and Ms Mayr missed out the$30,000 on offer for completing the gruelling race in under10 or12 minutes respectively. 克勒克和梅耶如果各自能够在10秒和12秒内完成这项令人精疲力竭的比赛的话,就能获得3万美元奖金,遗憾的是他们都与其失之交臂。
Austrian Rudolf Reitheiger, who beat Mr Crake in this year's Empire State Building race, came second in the men's competition. 奥地利人鲁道夫·特格尔在男子组比赛中屈居第二,他曾经在今年的帝国大厦登高赛中战胜过克勒克。
crake
[ noun ] any of several short-billed Old World rails <noun.animal>
Crake \Crake\ (kr[=a]k), v. t. & i. [See {Crack}.] 1. To cry out harshly and loudly, like the bird called crake.
2. To boast; to speak loudly and boastfully. [Obs.]
Each man may crake of that which was his own. --Mir. for Mag.
Crake \Crake\, n. A boast. See {Crack}, n. [Obs.] --Spenser.
Crake \Crake\, n. [Cf. Icel. kr[=a]ka crow, kr[=a]kr raven, Sw. kr[*a]ka, Dan. krage; perh. of imitative origin. Cf. {Crow}.] (Zo["o]l.) Any species or rail of the genera {Crex} and {Porzana}; -- so called from its singular cry. See {Corncrake}.