AMERICAN DREAM
美國夢(mèng)
[The american Dream is] that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement. It is a difficult dream for the European upper classes to interpret adequately, and too many of us ourselves have grown weary and mistrustful of it. It is not a dream of motor cars and high wages merely, but a dream of social order in which each man and each woman shall be able to attain to the fullest stature of which they are innately capable, and be recognized by others for what they are, regardless of the fortuitous circumstances of birth or position.
-----James Truslow Adams,The Epic of America
[美國夢(mèng)]是一片土地的夢(mèng)想，在這片土地上裸违，每個(gè)人的生活應(yīng)該更美好浙踢，更豐富痕鳍，更充實(shí)，每個(gè)人只要有能力，夠勤奮都可以獲得機(jī)會(huì)俘种。對(duì)于歐洲上層階級(jí)來說，這是一個(gè)難以充分解釋的夢(mèng)想绝淡，我們當(dāng)中有太多的人已經(jīng)對(duì)此感到厭倦和不信任宙刘。這不是一個(gè)僅僅擁有汽車和高收入的夢(mèng)想,而是一個(gè)對(duì)于社會(huì)秩序的夢(mèng)想，在這里牢酵，每個(gè)男人和女人能使其才能得以充分施展悬包，并因此獲得認(rèn)可，而不是因?yàn)樗某錾蛏鐣?huì)地位茁帽。
-----詹姆斯·特魯斯洛·亞當(dāng)斯玉罐，美國史詩
The sentiment in the U.S. declaration of Independence may be the quintessential expression of the American Dream:"We hold These truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life , Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness."
美國《獨(dú)立宣言》中的這種情緒可能是美國夢(mèng)的典型表達(dá)：“我們認(rèn)為這些真理是不言而喻的屈嗤，人人生而平等，造物主賦予他們某些不可剝奪的權(quán)利吊输， 其中包括生命饶号、自由和追求幸福〖韭欤”
