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第六单元 To hold this opinion, however, is little short of treason in America. A boy or girl who leaves college is branded a failure — and the right to fail is one of the few freedoms that this country does not grant its citizens. 然而在美国，持有这种观点差不多就是背叛。中途离开学的孩子们被丑化成失败者——失败的权利是少数几个美国政府没有赋予国民的自由之一。 The American dream is a dream of “getting ahead,” painted in strokes of gold wherever we look. Our advertisements and TV commercials are a hymn to material success, our magazine articles a toast to people who made it to the top. 美国之梦是“成功”之梦，凡是我们放眼之处都是一片金光灿烂。宣传广告和电视广告歌颂物质方面的成功，杂志文章赞誉到达成功顶峰的人。 Smoke the right cigarette or drive the right car — so the ads imply — and the girls will be swooning into your deodorized arms or caressing your expensive lapels. Happiness goes to the man who has the sweet smell of achievement. He is our national idol, and everybody else is our national fink. (Para. 3) 广告暗示你：吸适当的烟、开适当的车，女孩们就会昏倒在你那没有异味的肩膀之下，抚摸你那昂贵的衣领。幸福只青睐那些散发出成功的甜蜜气味的人。他是全体国民的偶像，其他所有人则是国家的蛀虫。 第八单元 Funny. This is how the U. S. was supposed to be. In a famous series of essays collected in his 1976 book, The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism, Daniel Bell noted how the decline of the Protestant small-town ethic had unhinged American capitalism from its moral foundation in the intrinsic value of work. 真是可笑！这本该是美国的模样嘛！丹尼尔· 贝尔1976 年出版《资本主义文化矛盾》一书, 书中收录的一系列著名文章，他描述了新教徒小镇式道德观的衰落怎样动摇了美国资本主义的道德基础和对工作内在价值的认识。 By the 1960s, Bell argued, “The cultural justification of capitalism (had) become hedonism, the idea of pleasure as a way of life.” 20 世纪60 年代，贝尔声称，“资本主义文化经过拨乱反正已变成了享乐主义文化，享受成为生活的一种方式。” In a 1969 cover story titled “California: A State of Excitement”, Time reported that, as most Americans saw it, “the good, godless, gregarious pursuit of pleasure is what California is all about … ‘I have seen the future,’ says the newly returned visitor to California, ‘and it plays.’” (Para. 4) 1969 年《时代周刊》一篇名为《加利福尼亚：充满刺激之州》的封面故事中写道，“追寻美好的、非宗教的、交际性的快乐已经成了加利福尼亚的全部。每个刚去过加州的人都说，‘我看到了未来，自由自在的娱乐在发挥作用。’”当时绝大多数美国