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an, is wants to bee a politician, some will have a dream house have a car in a quiet, uneventful life. These varied individual dream breeds the universality of the American dream, that is no matter how you born, no matter you have any background, as long as you work hard you can achieve your dream. This just as the American writer, Thomas Wolfe (Thomas Wolfe, 19001938) of the American dream, explains: anyone, no matter how he was born, no matter he is what kind of social status, more no matter what he has advantaged opportunities... he shall have the right to live, have the right to work, have the right to be yourself, have the right to according to congenital and acquired conditions bee the one you want to be. The American dream in the pursuit of spiritual rather than the pursuit of material. American historian James, Laszlo Adams, James Truslow Adams, 18781949) in the journal of the American Epic (Epic of America) wrote: the American dream is much more than material category, the American dream is to make people to get full development, realize self. He thought: the American dream is not a car, also is not high wages, but a social order, in this order, all men and women can achieve biggest acplishment according to their own quality can, and will be recognised by society, and with him (her) birth, social background and social status has nothing to do. To sum up, although everybody39。 1 英語國家概況 題 目 Interpretation of the American dream 姓 名 鮑玲玲 學(xué) 號 3110311001 專業(yè)班級 英語 111 學(xué) 院 外國語 寧波理工學(xué)院 2 In terms of The American dream, there are broad sense and narrow broad sense refers to the equality, freedom, democracy,while the narrow sense is a kind of believe that as long as the American people work hard,they will get a better life. The term was first used by James Truslow Adams. In his book The Epic of America ,which was written in 1931,he states: The American Dream is that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement. It is a difficult dream for the European upper classes to interpret adequately, and too many of us ourselves have grown weary and mistrustful of it. It is not a dream of motor cars and high wages merely, but a dream of social order in which each man and each woman shall be able to attain to the fullest stature of which th