AMERICAN DREAM到底是指什么
美国梦。
300年前，一群理想主义的清教徒们离开了继承和世袭制度盛行的欧洲大陆，将自己放逐到了北美大陆，在那里他们建立了美利坚合众国。从在建国一开始，美国人就相信机会的平等是他们的国家与欧洲旧大陆的不同之处。在1865年至1900的流金岁月，由于商业，重工业，铁路以及重商主义经济政治学的发展，在美国，一些身无分文的外来移民和美国人在一夜之间因为金矿油田的开采而跻身于富翁一族，而一大批成功的经济人士后来又相继改头换面，转行成了政界要员。而这样一个从一无所有到金钱和地位俱全的发迹过程就被人们形象的成为“美国梦”。此后，越来越多的外国移民拥向美国去寻找他们的“美国梦”，而越来越多有的美国人也在为自己的“美国梦”而努力。
“美国梦”是一个被众多美国人普遍信仰的信念，机会均等是“美国梦”的灵魂。聪明、勤奋与坚忍不拔是美国梦的必要条件，而幅度巨大的社会阶级纵向流动，尤其是由下层阶级至上层阶级的社会流动是美国梦表现出来的最为显著特征。美国巨富洛克菲勒与卡耐基就是这样白手起家的典型。霍雷肖·艾吉尔是美国流金岁月时代的代表作家，描写了很多出身穷苦，最后依靠自己的努力奋斗而发家致富、实现“美国梦”的人物形象，人们将之称为“霍雷肖·艾吉尔式”神话。 在当今的美国，比尔·盖兹空怕是最为成功的“美国梦”的实现者；而前美国总统克林顿的历程也是典型的“美国梦
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American dream
美国梦
California is full for foreign immigrants who came to the US to share the American dream, a popular belief that hard work will bring forth America's bounty in the form of material well-being.
加州有许多外国移民，他们来美国是为了分享美国梦，即一种广为接受的信仰，认为在美国只要奋斗就能成为富翁。
counterculture
反正统文化
In every generation, there seems to be a counterculture that rejects traditional thinking while promoting their own causes.
每一代人似乎都有反传统文化，他们摈弃传统思维，促进自己的利益。
information explosion
信息爆炸
The information explosion has left many people more confused than ever before as they attempt to keep up with the constant bombardment of facts, statistics, news clips, etc.
信息爆炸让很多人感到前所未有的困惑，因为他们试图接受铺天盖地的各种事实、统计数据、新闻消息等。
reverse discrimination
逆向歧视
Many white American men feel they have become victims of reverse discrimination--bias against the majority as a result of efforts to improve the position of the minority--in the workplace because so many employers are hiring women and minorities.
众多业主雇用妇女和少数民族，因而很多美国白种男人感到在工作地点自己成为逆向歧视--即由于采取措施提高少数民族的地位而对主体民族产生的一种偏见--的受害者。
AMERICAN DREAM指美国梦。
相关介绍：
“美国梦”是一个被众多美国人普遍信仰的信念，机会均等是“美国梦”的灵魂。聪明、勤奋与坚忍不拔是美国梦的必要条件，而幅度巨大的社会阶级纵向流动，尤其是由下层阶级至上层阶级的社会流动是美国梦表现出来的最为显著特征。
美国梦是一种强调平等，特别是物质繁荣的美国式(社会)理想(指追求富庶、人人自由和机会均等等)。
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相关背景：
"American Dream"一词最早是由詹姆斯特拉斯·洛亚当斯在他的著作《美国史诗》中提到的。他指出美国梦是梦想的土地，每个人都会有更好，更富有和更充实的生活，并且那些有能力或成就的人总是充满机会。
这是一个让欧洲上层阶级无法完全理解的梦想，甚至我们国家中的大部分人对它感到厌倦和不信任。这不仅仅是关于汽车和高薪水的梦想，而且是一个社会秩序，能使男人和妇女都可以获得最充分的地位，并且被他人所认可，无论出生的情况或地点。
参考资料来源：百度百科-American dream
意思 ：每个人都可以实现自己的梦想,追求更好,更富裕的生活.
The term was first used by James Truslow Adams in his book The Epic of America which was written in 1931.He states:"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." (p.214-215)
In the United States’ Declaration of Independence,our founding fathers:"…held certain 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." Might this sentiment be considered the foundation of the American Dream?
Were homesteaders who left the big cities of the east to find happiness and their piece of land in the unknown wilderness pursuing these inalienable Rights?Were the immigrants who came to the United States looking for their bit of life,liberty and the pursuit of happiness,their Dream?And what did the desire of the veteran of World War II - to settle down,to have a home,a car and a family - tell us about this evolving Dream?Is the American Dream attainable by all Americans?Would Martin Luther King feel his Dream was attained?Did Malcolm X realize his Dream?
Some say,that the American Dream has become the pursuit of material prosperity - that people work more hours to get bigger cars,fancier homes,the fruits of prosperity for their families - but have less time to enjoy their prosperity.Others say that the American Dream is beyond the grasp of the working poor who must work two jobs to insure their family’s survival.Yet others look toward a new American Dream with less focus on financial gain and more emphasis on living a simple,fulfilling life.
Thomas Wolfe said,"…to every man,regardless of his birth,his shining,golden opportunity ….the right to live,to work,to be himself,and to become whatever thing his manhood and his vision can combine to make him."
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