Twenge ponders all these messages in her book "Generation Me: Why Today's Young Americans Are More Confident, Assertive, Entitled -- and More Miserable Than Ever Before" (Free Press, 2006).

Twenge在其新书《“我”这一代：为何现在美国的年轻人这么自信，自负，自以为是，但也更痛苦》分析了以上问题的成因。

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Now, everyone in the generation after me wants to go to Parsons.

现在，我之后这一代每个人都想进入帕森斯。

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And they are the lost generation, believe me, not you.

他们是迷失的一代，相信我，但你不是。

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You're the generation that followed me and your children will follow us.

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It certainly wasn't available to me or most people of my generation.

我及我那一代人读书的时候,还没有。

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There are many people who talk about this generation as the "ME" generation: all I care about, all this generation cares about is " "well,let me just make more money", " "let me just get a bigger house", "let me just be more successful and accrue more eclats, " more prestige".

很多人认为这一代人,以自我为中心，这一代人只关心,“赚更多的钱，“买大一点的房子，“更成功，取得更高荣誉，变得更有威望。

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"Much of GenMe expects to be famous, " writes Jean Twenge, Associate Professor of Psychology at San Diego State University, in her book, Generation Me.

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But everything I have seen and experienced with your generation convinces me otherwise.

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Everything I have seen of your generation has shown me that you believe, as deeply as any previous generation, that America can always change for the better.

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