At the very least, it has awoken us from our national fever dream of easy riches and bigger houses, and put a necessary end to an era of reckless personal spending.

至少，它让我们从轻易致富和拥有更大房子的狂热梦想中醒来，并为一个不计后果的个人消费时代画上了一个必然的句号。

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The dream was easy to achieve.

这个梦想很容易实现。

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Li Zixuan knows it's not easy to achieve his dream, but he decided to try his best.

李子轩知道实现自己的梦想并不容易，但他决定尽自己最大的努力。

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It is an easy dream to have.

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Similarly, contemplating Greece's economic woes, it is easy to dream up some theory that connects Orthodox Christianity (and its comparatively charitable attitude to human weakness) with corruption or cronyism.

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Housing policies, interest rate policies and easy credit made the American Dream almost too easy to achieve and drove us inexorably toward the 2007 financial crisis.

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