For the past several decades, it seems there's been a general consensus on how to get ahead in America: Get a college education, find a reliable job, and buy your own home.

在过去的几十年里，人们对如何在美国取得成功似乎已经达成了一个普遍的共识：接受大学教育，找到一份可靠的工作，然后买一栋自己的房子。

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I can never find a pen in this house. They disappear as soon as I buy them.

我在家里从来找不到一支笔。每次我一买来就不翼而飞。

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Those poor and needy teenagers were excited to find a shop at the corner where they could buy affordably priced bikes.

那些贫穷的、需要帮助的少年兴奋地发现，在拐角处有一家商店，他们可以买到价格低廉的自行车。

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All this is moving toward an elusive goal: to find a "buy button" inside the skull and to test products, packaging and advertising for their ability to activate it.

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Comparing the current economic situation with the 1980s, a period when he said the Conservatives claimed they "stood up" for aspiration, he said people trying to find a job or to buy a home now were finding their ambitions "being blunted by what is happening in our economy".

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It took three years for my department to find a way to buy in outside data.

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