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。

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Can you find a hold for your hands so that you can pull yourself up?

你能不能找到一个手抓得住的地方爬上去？

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Honey, pull yourself up by your bootstraps.

亲爱的，凭自己的力量重新振作起来。

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That is,this kind of pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps, that with enough determination and hard work that you can transcend limitations of money or class or gender.

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Pull yourself up kiddo, you have bootstraps dontcha?

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None of the possible contenders, though, can claim the pull-yourself-up-by-the-bootstraps, Greatest Generation personal story that shaped Frank Lautenberg's years of public service.

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But "to this day, 'Thatcherism' is used all over the world to describe a brisk, unsentimental, pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps approach, " he writes.

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