Ameryka się kończy

English translation: America's best days are behind it/her/us; America's best/glory days are a thing of the past

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Polish term or phrase:Ameryka się kończy
English translation:America's best days are behind it/her/us; America's best/glory days are a thing of the past
Entered by: Darius Saczuk

18:20 Mar 9, 2024
Polish to English translations [PRO]
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Polish term or phrase: Ameryka się kończy
Proszę o pomoc w tłumaczeniu tego określenia
O to kontekst:
Polonijna dzielnica Nowego Jorku, która jeszcze kilka lat temu tętniła życiem, zmienia swoje oblicze. Bliskość Manhattanu sprawiła, że sprowadzają się tam coraz bogatsi Amerykanie lub imigranci z innych państw. Nasi rodacy w poszukiwaniu oszczędności znajdują miejsce dla siebie w innych częściach USA lub wracają do kraju. O tym, jak zmienia się Greenpoint rozmawiałem z naszymi rodakami.
Opłaty za mieszkania są tak duże, że przekraczają możliwości emerytury. 1700, 1500, 1800 dolarów kosztuje mieszkaniu na Greenpoincie, a emerytury są w granicach 1200-1400 dolarów. A gdzie życie? Tu już Ameryka się skończyła - mówią Polacy mieszkający w Nowym Jorku.

Przedstawiciele polonijnych agencji turystycznych przyznają, że w ostatnim czasie sprzedają dużo więcej biletów w jedną stronę. Polacy wyjeżdżają z USA, bo w kraju z blisko 10-procentowym bezrobociem coraz trudniej znaleźć pracę. Do tego nielegalni imigranci mają niewielkie szanse na zalegalizowanie swojego pobytu - przekonuje mnie Kamila Mucha z polonijnego biura podróży na Greenpoincie.
Mówią, że może kiedyś wrócą, ale już niekoniecznie. Już chcą do Polski wracać. Mówią, że Ameryka się kończy. Sprzedaję więcej biletów w jedną stronę niż w poprzednich latach. Widać, że jednak ludzie się przeprowadzają. Niektórzy pakują wszystko, co się da. Inni mówią, że za te pieniądze można sobie coś kupić, zamiast płacić za przesyłki - tłumaczy.
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Piotr Łazorko
Poland
Local time: 13:34
America's best days are behind it/her/us; America's best/glory days are a thing of the past
Explanation:
Other options
3) The American Dream is no more;
4) The American Dream has come to a close;
5) The American Dream has run its course;
6) America's shine has faded away;
7) America's shine has worn off;

Examples
The New York Times
America's Best Days May Be Behind It
https://www.nytimes.com › Business › Economy
Jan 19, 2016 — Has technological progress slowed for good? The idea that America's best days are behind us sits in sharp tension with the high-tech optimism ...

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Fox News
Are America's best days a thing of the past? Voters think so
https://www.foxnews.com › official-polls › fox-news-p...
Jun 29, 2023 — For the first time, the survey finds fewer than half of voters think America's best days are ahead of us (43%), a nine ...
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Darius Saczuk
United States
Local time: 07:34
Grading comment
Dziękuję bardzo za pomoc!
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Summary of answers provided
5 +1thr American Dream is over
Gregory Chapman
5America's best days are behind it/her/us; America's best/glory days are a thing of the past
Darius Saczuk
4 +1America is in decline.
legato
3this is the end of America as we know it
geopiet
3America is fading away
Andrzej Ziomek
3America is no longer (a) viable (option)
Ewa Dabrowska
3America's over, fizzling out, on its way out
geopiet


  

Answers


3 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +1
thr American Dream is over


Explanation:
Indeed it is

Gregory Chapman
Poland
Local time: 13:34
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 8
Notes to answerer
Asker: Dziękuję bardzo za pomoc!


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  petrolhead
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7 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
this is the end of America as we know it


Explanation:
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geopiet
Native speaker of: Native in PolishPolish
PRO pts in category: 301
Notes to answerer
Asker: Dziękuję bardzo za pomoc!

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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
America's best days are behind it/her/us; America's best/glory days are a thing of the past


Explanation:
Other options
3) The American Dream is no more;
4) The American Dream has come to a close;
5) The American Dream has run its course;
6) America's shine has faded away;
7) America's shine has worn off;

Examples
The New York Times
America's Best Days May Be Behind It
https://www.nytimes.com › Business › Economy
Jan 19, 2016 — Has technological progress slowed for good? The idea that America's best days are behind us sits in sharp tension with the high-tech optimism ...

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Note added at 1 hr (2024-03-09 19:46:27 GMT)
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Fox News
Are America's best days a thing of the past? Voters think so
https://www.foxnews.com › official-polls › fox-news-p...
Jun 29, 2023 — For the first time, the survey finds fewer than half of voters think America's best days are ahead of us (43%), a nine ...

Darius Saczuk
United States
Local time: 07:34
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in PolishPolish, Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 2137
Grading comment
Dziękuję bardzo za pomoc!
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
America is in decline.


Explanation:
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legato
United States
Local time: 05:34
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in PolishPolish
PRO pts in category: 32
Notes to answerer
Asker: Dziękuję bardzo za pomoc!


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Andrzej Mierzejewski: Krótko i czas teraźniejszy jak w oryginale.
1 day 35 mins
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2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
America is fading away


Explanation:
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https://issuu.com/isnacreative/docs/ih_may-june_17

Bannon believes that America is fading away because of the “crisis of capitalism

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https://www.facebook.com/CBSPittsburgh/posts/just-in-the-hou...

[...] while the rest of the nation's still sleeping, America's fading away.

Andrzej Ziomek
Poland
Local time: 13:34
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in PolishPolish
PRO pts in category: 8
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Asker: Dziękuję bardzo za pomoc!

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20 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
America is no longer (a) viable (option)


Explanation:
inna propozycja

Where Do We Go from Here? Québécois Identity in the ...
CUNY Academic Works
https://academicworks.cuny.edu › cgi › viewcontent
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by A Williams-Tutt · 2020 — America is no longer viable. Québec is Jack's origin and end point, but American exploration, of both oneself in America and America in oneself, is a ...

Faux Irish in Deepest Texas
Keghart
https://keghart.org › tutunjian-faux-irish-in-texas
4 Jun 2023 — Luckily, things are changing: the Saturday Evening Post version of America is no longer viable. The social, political, cultural…changes of ...


Ewa Dabrowska
United Kingdom
Local time: 12:34
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Native speaker of: Native in PolishPolish
PRO pts in category: 16
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Asker: Dziękuję bardzo za pomoc!

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1 day 5 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
America's over, fizzling out, on its way out


Explanation:
fizzle out. ​(informal) to gradually become less successful and end in a disappointing way.

geopiet
Native speaker of: Native in PolishPolish
PRO pts in category: 301
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