For Strauss, living on credit, desperate to work, but with no job in sight, that dream looks a thing of the past, not the future.

对于像斯特劳斯这样依靠信用卡生活的人来说他们急需工作却根本找不到，美国梦是过去式而不是将来式。

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The durable denim pants were brought to market by Levi Strauss, a Jewish merchant living in San Francisco, to meet the needs of uncouth miners in California's gold fields.

为了满足加利福尼亚的那些大老粗金矿工人的需要，住在旧金山的犹太商人李维•施特劳斯将这种结实耐磨的牛仔裤引进了市场。

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"Logically speaking, they never, ever could work, " says Neil Strauss, a journalist who spent months learning from and living with self-professed dating and seduction experts.

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