Ask most people how they define the American Dream and chances are they'll say, "Success."
如果问大多数人如何定义美国梦，他们很可能会说：“成功。”
Increased inequality and decreasing mobility pose a fundamental threat to the American Dream.
不平等的加剧和流动性的下降对美国梦造成了根本上的威胁。
They are seen as abandoning both modern conveniences and the American dream of success and progress.
他们被视为同时抛弃了现代化便利和关于成功与进步的美国梦。
Perhaps because going to college is so much a part of the American dream, many people go for no particular reason.
也许因为上大学是美国梦的重要组成部分，许多人去大学并没有什么特别的原因。
Overwhelmingly, the results show that today, the idea of the American dream—and what it takes to achieve it—looks quite different than it did in the late 20th century.
结果显示，绝大多数人认为，如今人们对美国梦的看法以及实现美国梦所需的条件与二十世纪末人们的看法相差很大。
Before we give up the American dream, I suggest all readers reconsider selling off their biggest possession! According to the passage, which of the following statement is true about Jane?
在我们放弃美国梦之前，我建议所有的读者重新考虑卖掉他们最大的财产！根据短文，下列哪个关于简的说法是正确的？
Joe was trying to realise the American dream.
而乔正试图实现着美国梦。
Doesn't that sound like the newcentury's American dream?
那听起来仿佛是新世纪的美国梦，不是吗？
But stagnant rates of mobility risk turning the American dream to delusion.
但是停滞不前的流动率，极可能使美国梦成为妄想。
And so these miners lived — as they died — in pursuit of the American Dream.
所以，这些矿工的生活就是追寻美国梦，他们也因此丧命。
He defined his American dream as "a house, a dog, a couple rifles, a bass boat".
他把他的美国梦定义为：“一幢房，一只狗，两杆来福枪，一条钓渔船。”
When you are "The Center for a New American Dream" you get used to double takes.
当你在“新美国梦中心”时你会习惯于怀疑一切。
A key tenet of the American Dream is that each generation will do better than the last.
美国梦的一个基本信条就是，一代更比一代强。
We are rewarding work and helping more of our people reach for the American Dream again.
我们的工作时有益的，来帮助我们更多的人民再次达成美国梦。
The term "American Dream" was coined in 1931, 155 years after the founding of the nation.
1931年，有人创造了术语“美国梦”，是在美国建立155年之后。
Though I also found that the American dream usually didn't include my people, the Natives.
不过我也发现，美国梦通常不包括美洲原住民。
Third, we’re restoring the home as a source of stability and an anchor of the American Dream.
第三个方面，我们正在修复家园，这是社会稳定的源泉，也是美国梦的支撑物。
To reconcile the American dream of achievement for all with the reality of personal failure for many.
为大众的美国梦忙忙碌碌，现实却是许多个人的失败。
For all the cynicism that pervades our society lately, many of us still believe in the American Dream.
对那些后来渗透到我们社会中的那些愤世嫉俗来说，我们许多人仍然相信美国梦。
The American Dream has many couples dreaming of buying a first home and perhaps even starting a family.
有很多恋人的美国梦就是买第一套房子，也许就此开始家庭生活。
Dow's success has delivered the nice homes, good schools and ball parks that make up the American Dream.
陶氏的成功已经实现了好家、好学校、球场这些组成美国梦的要素。
In the American mind, renters are regarded as an unsavorylot, willful dissidents from the American dream.
在美国人的脑子里，租房者被视为是穷困潦倒、存心与美国梦作对的人。
The ideal of a harmonious collective may turn out to be as attractive as the ideal of the American Dream.
和谐集体之梦想或许会和美国梦具有同样的吸引力。
To say that one of these represents the American Dream and the other does not is to set up a false choice.
如果说他们两人中一个代表了美国梦而另一个没有，这是在作出错误的选择。
In the end, what this day represents is another stone firmly laid in the foundation of the American Dream.
最后，今天意味着美国梦的又一坚实基石。
With nothing but $25 and a backpack, Adam Shepard set out to prove whether the American Dream still exists.
亚当·谢巴德随身携带25美元和一个旅行包，就走上证明美国梦是否依然存在的探索之路。
In place of traditional envy, the rich increasingly inspire aspirations in the manner of the American dream.
富人们不再是传统上嫉妒的对象，而是越来越激起人们追求美国梦的上进心。
Which is at some level strange. To study hard, to do well, to improve yourself—isn't that the American dream?
这就有点奇怪了——努力学习，取得成功，提升自己，这不是美国梦吗？
Which is at some level strange. To study hard, to do well, to improve yourself—isn't that the American dream?
这就有点奇怪了——努力学习，取得成功，提升自己，这不是美国梦吗？
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