每课一词：新概念英语第1册第69课
接下来我们继续来看第69课的“每课一词”：
Lesson 69 The car race
There is a car race near our town every year. In 1995, there was a very big race.
There were hundreds of people there. My wife and I were at the race. Our friends, Julie and Jack were there, too. You can see us in the crowd. We are standing on the left.
There were twenty cars in the race. There were English cars, French cars, German cars, Italian cars, American cars and Japanese cars.
It was an exciting finish. The winner was Billy Stewart. He was in car number fifteen. Five other cars were just behind him.
On the way home, my wife said to me, “Don't drive so quickly! You're not Billy Stewart!”
——选自《新概念英语》第一册，外语教学与研究出版社，1997年10月第1
二、每课一词
finish
【源】
14世纪进入英语，直接源自古法语的finiss，意为“结束”；最初源自拉丁语的finire，意为“限制，末尾，结束”。
【音】
['fɪnɪʃ]
【义】
finish一般用作动词，表示“完成；结束”。可以直接后接名词或代词等作宾语；如果后接动词，则采用finish doing的用法。如：
When do you finish your college course?你什么时候完成大学课程？Place the book back where you found it when you have finished reading.看完后把书放回原处。
finish也可以用作名词，表示“完成；结束”，本文中的finish就是这样的用法。如：
The two men fought to the finish.两个人打到分出胜负为止。At ten-thirty the dinner finally dragged to a finish.宴会拖到十点半才结束。
三、更多拓展
race, competition, contest
这组词的共同意思是“竞赛，竞争”。其区别在于：
1、race可用在大选中的竞争，也指竞速类比赛2、competition指在某项目或某次比赛中与对手所进行的“较量与竞争”3、contest多用于有评判委员会的“比赛”