As Obama noted, the standard rhetoric of John McCain's party is that any American should be able to pull herself up by her bootstraps if she works hard enough.

如同奥巴马所说，约翰·麦凯恩的共和党的标准论调是每个美国人如果够努力的话，都应当能靠一己之力出人头地。

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So a better standard of living comparison is between how much rice an Asian can buy with a certain income as against how many potatoes an American can by with the same income.

所以一个更好的的生活水平比较方式是：将一个亚洲人以某个固定收入能买多少大米和一个美国人用相同收入买得到多少土豆进行比较。

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Societal expectations praise busyness as the de-facto standard of how we should live our lives, through the scammy consumerist American Dream.

社会上普遍赞同忙碌，认为我们就是应该这样子的生活，这想法贯穿了骗人的崇尚消费主义的美国梦。

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He reckons that, as has already happened with some shares, more and more firms from the region will go to market in the United States, presenting themselves as American companies, with American-standard accounts, whose operations just happen to be abroad.

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Here you can eschew standard American eats for traditional English fare such as bangers and mash (English style sausage and homemade mashed potatoes) or the Ploughmans Lunch, which features slices of English cheddar and Stilton cheeses, tomato, cucumber and beets on a roll.

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