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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. 半身像，胸部，萧条，破产 v. 打碎
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- My great-grandfather was a drunk in Detroit, who sometimes managed to hold down a factory job.
- 我的曾祖父曾经住在底特律，他是个酒鬼，有时勉强去工厂工作。
- He had, as unbelievable as it might sound, 21 children, with one woman, my great-grandmother, who died at 47 years old of ovarian cancer.
- 他和我的曾祖母有21个孩子，听起来难以置信，我的曾祖母因为卵巢癌，于47岁去世。
- Now, I'm pregnant with my second child, and I cannot even fathom what she must have gone through.
- 现在，我怀着第二个孩子，我甚至不敢想象她经历了什么。
- And if you're trying to do the math -- there were six sets of twins.
- 如果你们算一下的话，其中有6对双胞胎。
- So my grandfather, their son, became a traveling salesman, and he lived boom and bust.
- 我的祖父，也就是他们的儿子，当了一名旅行推销员，生活起伏不定。
- So my dad grew up answering the door for debt collectors and pretending his parents weren't home.
- 因此我父亲的童年一直就是，给催债的人开门，假装说父母不在家。
- He actually took his braces off himself with pliers in the garage,
- 我祖父说没有钱去看正牙医。
- when his father admitted he didn't have money to go back to the orthodontist.
- 我父亲就自己在车库里用钳子把牙套拔掉。
- So my dad, unsurprisingly, became a bankruptcy lawyer. Couldn't write this in a novel, right?
- 因此不足为奇，我父亲成了一位破产清算律师。这可不能写在小说里，对吧？
- He was obsessed with providing a secure foundation for my brother and I.
- 他一心想为我们姐弟俩提供稳定的生活。
- So I ask these questions by way of a few generations of struggle.
- 因此我通过描述几代人的奋斗，回答了刚才的问题
- My parents made sure that I grew up on a kind of steady ground that allows one to question and risk and leap.
- 父母想确保我的成长建立在稳固的基础上，在这种基础上就会产生质疑、风险、冒险。
- And ironically, and probably sometimes to their frustration,
- 具有讽刺意味的是，可能对此我的父母也很失望，
- it is their steadfast commitment to security that allows me to question its value,
- 正是因为他们想要为我提供稳定生活的决心，我才开始质疑其价值
- or at least its value as we've historically defined it in the 21st century.
- 或是说，21世纪对其价值的定义。
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| bust | [bʌst] | 联想记忆 | ||
| steady | ['stedi] | |||
| bankruptcy | ['bæŋkrəptsi] | 联想记忆 | ||
| commitment | [kə'mitmənt] | 联想记忆 | ||
| steadfast | ['stedfæst] | 联想记忆 | ||
| frustration | [frʌs'treiʃən] | |||
| defined | [di'faind] | |||
| ironically | [ai'rɔnikli] | |||
| security | [si'kju:riti] | |||
| secure | [si'kjuə] | 联想记忆 |
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