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大多数美国家长不认为孩子的未来生活会更好，这在历史上还是头一次。记者考特尼·马丁称，不必因此而担忧，而是将此视作一个机遇，定义新型工作方式和新型家庭，注重社区生活和创新能力。她在讲话中说道：“最危险的不是没法实现美国梦，而是去追寻一个连自己都不相信的梦。”这势必在全世界产生共鸣。
n. 事迹，行为，[法]契约
vt. 立契转让
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- Is "better off" finding a secure job that you can count on for the rest of your life? Those are nearly extinct.
- 是找到了一个稳定的工作，一辈子都不用愁，就意味着“生活安逸”吗？这种情况几乎不存在。
- People move jobs, on average, every 4.7 years, and it's estimated that by 2020, nearly half of Americans will be freelancers.
- 人们平均4.7年就换一个工作，并且，预计到2020年会有将近半数美国人是自由职业者。
- OK, so is better off just a number? Is it about earning as much as you possibly can?
- 好吧，所以生活安逸只是由一个数字衡量的吗？是意味着赚的越多越好吗？
- By that singular measurement, we are failing.
- 用这种单一的衡量方式，我们都算不上生活安逸。
- Median per capita income has been flat since about 2000, adjusted for inflation.
- 从2000年开始，去除通货膨胀因素，人均收入中位数一直偏低。
- All right, so is better off getting a big house with a white picket fence? Less of us are doing that.
- 好吧，所以是不是买一栋豪宅，围一圈白色尖桩篱笆，就意味着生活安逸了？这样做的人越来越少了。
- Nearly five million people lost their homes in the Great Recession,
- 在经济大衰退期间，将近500万人无家可归
- and even more of us sobered up about the lengths we were willing to go
- 甚至更多的人清楚的意识到买房的困难
- or be tricked into going, in many predatory cases -- to hold that deed.
- 或者说，从鼓吹买房的陷阱中清醒过来。
- Home-ownership rates are at their lowest since 1995.
- 从1995年至今，住房自有率处于最低水平。
- All right, so we're not finding steady employment, we're not earning as much money, and we're not living in big fancy houses.
- 好吧，所以我们没有稳定的工作，没有赚那么多钱，没有豪宅
- Toll the funeral bells for everything that made America great.
- 为让美国强大的一切敲响丧钟。
- But, are those the best measurements of a country's greatness, of a life well lived?
- 然而这些是衡量一个国家强大与否生活安逸与否的最佳标准吗？
- What I think makes America great is its spirit of reinvention.
- 我认为，是再创造的精神，使美国强大。
- In the wake of the Great Recession, more and more Americans are redefining what "better off" really means.
- 大衰退之后，越来越多的美国人开始重新定义“生活安逸”。
- Turns out, it has more to do with community and creativity than dollars and cents.
- 他们发现，“生活安逸”和社区生活与创新联系更加紧密，而不是钱。
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