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(jīng)過不懈努力奮斗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。

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為美國夢是指獲得財富，像得到商品，買上了大房子，并擁有其周圍一塊土地等等。這群人被認為是傳統(tǒng)物質(zhì)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簽和追求不談，而且認為物質(zhì)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。這群人被叫著世俗唯靈論者。他們認為人生就是要真誠，就是取得比自身大的財富，就是要在走的時候為家人，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%.
在過去的一個世紀里，世俗唯靈論者人數(shù)已上升到了42%， 而傳統(tǒng)物質(zhì)主義者則只有31%。