The big American myth is that you can pull yourself up by your own efforts and change a bad situation into a good one.
美国人的一大神话是人可以通过自己的努力振作起来,转逆为顺。
The problem is that this tidy narrative is an American myth.
问题在于,这种光鲜的说法是美国人自己杜撰出来的。
In American society, there are two types of civilization myths, WASP myth and modern American myth.
美国社会存在两种文明神话,即白人新教神话和现代美国神话。
Hemingway's legendary life story has already become modern American myth reflected in his fictional creation.
海明威富有传奇色彩的人生经历已成为现代美国神话,融入他的小说创作之中。
His exploration of the myth brings insight into the American psyche.
他对那个神话的探索揭示了美国人的心理。
Every American who hopes to "make it" also knows the fear of failure, because the myth of success inevitably implies comparison between the haves and the have-nots, the stars and the anonymous crowd.
每个希望“成功”的美国人也都知道对失败的恐惧,因为成功的神话不可避免地意味着成就和失败、明星和普通人之间的比较。
It is a myth that gunslingers in the American west cut notches in the handle of their pistol for each man they shot.
有种传说,美国西部的枪手们每杀死一个人就在他们的枪柄上刻下一个V形记号。
In 2013, a study at an American university examined the right brain and left brain myth.
2013年,美国一所大学检测了关于右脑和左脑的(人们所普遍持有的)错误见解。
Again, American conservatives have long used the myth of a failing Europe to argue against progressive policies in America.
再一次要说的是,长期以来,美国保守分子以一个衰落的欧洲的神话来反驳美国的进步人士。
She argued that in fracturing the myth of American invincibility, the attacks also indirectly prompted a resurgence in patriarchal ideals, and a return to old-fashioned perceptions of gender.
她认为伴随着美国无敌神话的破灭,袭击事件同时也间接催生了父权理念的复兴和旧式性别观念的回归。
A myth is still cherished by a few elderly American generals that the media lost them the Vietnam war.
美国一些的年迈将军们至今仍相信一个神话,即媒体造成了越战的失败。
But it turns out that "my New American Life" is really little more than a tired and faintly cynical riff on the old myth of the American Dream.
然而《我的新美国生活》结果是无异于对美国梦这个古老神话的陈旧、讽刺的重述。
But if Crew's discovery helped to launch the myth, it was an episode nine years later that sealed Bigfoot's place in the American consciousness.
如果说克鲁的发现开始了一段神话,那么9年后发生的一件事则奠定了大脚怪在美国人意识中的地位。
But when Zhao Benshan explained the modern myth of "American dream", he forges a new and fragile city dream with a peasant's optimism.
不过赵本山在解构“美国梦”式的现代性神话的同时,却用农民式的乐观打造了一个新的弱不禁风的都市梦想。
Perhaps the significance of the influence consists mainly in the implication that Frost thought of the development of American national character in terms of the Faust myth.
也许戏剧影响诗的意义主要在于暗示到:佛洛斯特认为美国国家的特性有点像是浮士德的神话。
Like any good myth, American Gods features a boatload of mysteries and plot twists.
像任何优秀的神话那样,《美国众神》描绘了一大堆神秘的事物和复杂的情节。
The legend and myth of the Tooth Fairy is a delightful1 part of American family culture.
牙齿仙女的传说和神话是美国家庭文化中充满快乐的一部分。
A Cool Million is hailed as the first complete disavowal of the American dream of success because it launches an unprecedentedly direct and profound flog on the national myth.
《冷酷的百万》因其对美国梦发起了史无前例的直接而又深刻的抨击而被誉为是第一部完整的否定美国梦成功的小说。
Cowboy Myth, also the American Western Story, is a popular literature ardently loved by the Americans and the whole world as well.
“牛仔神话”即美国西部故事,是深受美国乃至世界各国人们喜爱的一种大众文学。
Cowboy Myth, also the American Western Story, is a popular literature ardently loved by the Americans and the whole world as well.
“牛仔神话”即美国西部故事,是深受美国乃至世界各国人们喜爱的一种大众文学。
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