| 词汇 | the american dream |
| 词源 | the American dream. The American dream is almost impos- sible to define, meaning as it does so many different things to so many different people. These words go back at least to de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America (1835) and are usually as- sociated with the dreams of people new to these shores of free- dom, material prosperity, and hope for the future. |
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