I had fulfilled my American dream.
我在自己身上实现了美国梦。
Even so, it is apparent that the American dream survives, at least in the bright mind of my barber, as her spontaneous and accurate description of it reveals.
即使如此,美国梦显然没有消亡,至少它存在于我的理发师聪明的头脑中,因为她可以自然并准确的描述它。
When I talk to her by phone a few weekslater, Marion, who speaks with a delightful French accent, tells me, "It's been my dream to do an American musical.
几个星期之后,当我跟玛丽昂通电话的时候,她用那讨人喜欢的法国口音告诉我:“拍一个美国歌舞片,这一直是我的梦想。
My greatest fear is that after all these years largely as nonparticipants in the American dream, our inclusion will ultimately kill off tribal languages, traditions and our knowledge.
我最担心的是,这么多年来大部分时间里我们都是美国梦的非参与者,但现在参与到主流文化将最终灭绝我们的部落语言、传统和我们的知识。
This isn't the American dream my family envisioned.
这不是我们家预想的美国梦。
But it turns out that "my New American Life" is really little more than a tired and faintly cynical riff on the old myth of the American Dream.
然而《我的新美国生活》结果是无异于对美国梦这个古老神话的陈旧、讽刺的重述。
I feel humbled to return to the village of my grandfather and father's birth to pay tribute to their achievements and what the American dream represents to both Americans and Chinese.
我怀着谦卑的心情回到我祖父的村庄和我父亲的出生地,向他们所取得的成就以及美国梦对美国人和中国人所具有的共同意义表达崇敬之情。
I don't know how widespread this feeling is, but I suspect that a lot of ordinary folks, and more than a few serious thinkers, would tend to agree with my barber about the fate of the American dream.
我不清楚多少人有这种感觉,但我怀疑在美国梦的命运方面,多数平民以及绝非极少数严肃的思考者都将倾向于认可我的理发师的看法。
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。
It was a small enough amount that none of my American friends noticed, or, if they did, they would never dream of mentioning it.
体重增长的很少,没有哪个美国朋友会注意到,或者是,即便他们注意到了他们也不会说。
Kill my boss? Do I dare live out the American dream?
杀了我老板?我也敢活出美国梦了? ?
I say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.
朋友们,这就是我要向大家说的,尽管我们在今天和明天会遇到许多困难,我仍然有一个梦,这是一个发源于美国梦的梦。
I say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.
我的朋友们,我跟你们说,尽管今天跟明天我们要面临很多困难之事,但我仍有一个梦想,这个梦想深深地扎根在美国之梦里。
The American dream, of working hard and getting ahead, is starting to succumb to that lottery mentality my mother saw hurting Mexico's economy.
努力争先的美国梦正在向彩票思维让步,我妈妈认为损害墨西哥经济的正是这种彩票思维。
Thee American dream, of working hard and getting ahead, is starting to succumb to that lottery mentality my mother saw hurting Mexico's economy.
努力争先的美国梦正在向彩票思维让步,我妈妈认为损害墨西哥经济的正是这种彩票思维。
My mind runs around this strange, complicated person who seemed in so many ways to embody the American Dream.
脑子里想着这个奇特而复杂的人,他似乎在许多方面体现了美国梦。
"He is living the American dream by working elsewhere, " Ms. Lythcott-Haims, my fellow reader, observed. "There is a cost to this choice. "
“他通过在别的地方工作来实现美国梦,”和我一起读申请陈述的利思科特-海姆斯这样评论。“这个选择是有代价的。”
Tonight I also have a first-showing event of a documentary about my first 6 months in China pursuing my dream as the American Chinese Pop Star.
今晚我还有一个纪录片首映活动,关于我来中国的最早六个月,追求我的中美流行明星的梦想。
Thee American dream, of working hard and getting ahead, is starting to succumb to that lottery mentality my mother saw hurting Mexico's economy.
尽力争先的美国梦正在向彩票思维妥协,我妈妈以为伤害墨西哥经济的正是这种彩票思维。
But I never gave up on my dream, even before "American Idol."
但我从没有放弃我的梦想,即使是在“美国偶像”举办之前。
But I never gave up on my dream, even before "American Idol."
但我从没有放弃我的梦想,即使是在“美国偶像”举办之前。
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