新時代的美國夢

Nowadays, fewer Americans think the American Dream is still achievable, but many have redefined what that dream means.
國夢原指身在美國的人,只要經過不懈努力奮鬥定能獲得更好生活的理想.但如今在越來越多的美國人心中,美國夢有了新的定義。

ing-bottom: 75%;">

In the late 1990s about one-third believed the American Dream meant some form of financial success, like the acquisition of goods, a bigger house, a home with a piece of land around it and so on. This group is called Traditional Materialists.
在十九世紀九十年代，大約有三分之一的人認爲美國夢是指獲得財富，像得到商品，買上了大房子，並擁有其周圍一塊土地等等。這羣人被認爲是傳統物質主義者。

Another one-third eschewed both that label and that aspiration. They had decided to reorder their priorities away from things and rejected the notion that he who dies with the most toys wins. The group is called Secular Spiritualists. They thought life was about being genuine, about achieving a legacy larger than one's self, about leaving this earth a better place for family, community, and planet.
另外三分之一的人卻避開標籤和追求不談，而且認爲物質乃身外之物，不是最重要的，不接受所謂的死亡的時候擁有最多玩具的是勝者的說法。這羣人被叫着世俗唯靈論者。他們認爲人生就是要真誠，就是取得比自身大的財富，就是要在走的時候爲家人，國家，世界留下一個更好的空間。

Over the past decade, there is a steady growth of the Secular Spiritualists to around 42%, while the Traditional Materialists now number about 31%.
在過去的一個世紀裏，世俗唯靈論者人數已上升到了42%， 而傳統物質主義者則只有31%。