| 单词 | american dream |
| 释义 | > as lemmasAmerican dream American dream n. (also American Dream) (with the) the ideal that every citizen of the United States should have an equal opportunity to achieve success and prosperity through hard work, determination, and initiative. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social attitudes > patriotism > nationalism > [noun] > other spec. > movement or ideal cultural nationalism1914 American dream1916 pan-Indianism1945 AIM1971 a1911 D. G. Phillips Susan Lenox (1917) I. xxiii. 439 The fashion and home magazines..have prepared thousands of Americans..for the possible rise of fortune that..is the universal American dream and hope.] 1916 Chicago Tribune 7 Feb. 6 If the American idea, the American hope, the American dream, and the structures which Americans have erected are not worth fighting for to maintain and protect, they were not worth fighting for to establish. 1931 J. T. Adams Epic of Amer. 410 If the American dream is to come true and to abide with us, it will, at bottom, depend on the people themselves. 2002 N.Y. Times 28 Apr. 12/2 Many claim..rights to housing, education, health care and welfare checks, yet they are denied the up-by-the-bootstraps right to work that..has always underpinned the immigrant's hope for access to the American dream. < as lemmas |
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