What it does for him is allow him to buy his aunt this symbol of a middle-class American domesticity, and he is a happy participant in this new purchase.

这让他能够给阿姨,买这个美国中产阶级家庭生活的象征物，而他也很高兴能这么做。

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So they've only grown up with one American family. So that's a really, really big difference.

只有一个是美国家庭的孩子。所以这差别还是很大的。

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Climbing the alps, writing the great American novel, raising a great family that loves you, being creative.

比如攀登阿尔卑斯山，书写伟大的美国小说，建立一个充满爱意的家庭，让自己充满创意等等。

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Right now the total value of single-family homes in the United States is about twenty trillion dollars and the market has been becoming increasingly speculative.

如今,美国家庭的,房产总值,接近2万亿美金,而且,市场变得越来越投机

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Also, it can't be an accident that it's an African American family depicted in here, so there are a lot of interesting things going on in this little video clip.

此外,广告刻画了一个非裔美国人,家庭的画面,也绝对不是巧合,所以这个广告短片里,有很多耐人寻味之处

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