China Daily新聞賞析（二）

University should be curbed, especially when higher education is no longer the realm of a chosen few－for example, more than 10 million of the 10.7 million students who took gaokao this year will qualify to enroll in colleges. Besides, university students account for more than a half of the total population of 18-22-year olds in the country.

翻譯：考入名牌大學(xué)的熱潮應(yīng)該得到遏制，尤其是當(dāng)高等教育不再是少數(shù)人的專利時(shí)——例如，今年參加高考的1070萬(wàn)學(xué)生中有1000多萬(wàn)人有資格進(jìn)入大學(xué)。此外，大學(xué)生占全國(guó)18-22歲總?cè)丝诘囊话胍陨稀?/p>

好詞賞析：

curb：遏制

a chosen few：被選中的少數(shù)人

besides：另外

account for：占據(jù)

There is a need for society to accord high priority to talent quality over diploma. After all, learning is a life-long journey.

翻譯：社會(huì)需要優(yōu)先考慮人才質(zhì)量而不是文憑。畢竟，學(xué)習(xí)是一生的旅程。

好詞賞析：

accord...to...：給予

after all：畢竟

a life-long journey：一生的旅程

It's wrong to consider all graduates, postgraduates and PhD holders from Peking University, Tsinghua University or other top universities as high-quality talents, because many of them could be mediocre students, may not understand the value of education and/or lack expertise and life skills.

翻譯：把北京大學(xué)、清華大學(xué)或其他頂尖大學(xué)的所有畢業(yè)生、研究生和博士生都視為高素質(zhì)人才是錯(cuò)誤的，因?yàn)樗麄冎械脑S多人可能是平庸的學(xué)生，可能不理解教育的價(jià)值和/或缺乏專業(yè)知識(shí)和生活技能。

好詞賞析：

mediocre：平庸的

expertise：專業(yè)知識(shí)

lack sth：缺乏某物

It's also unfair to belittle jobs at the grassroots level, because they can serve as a platform for going on to do greater things. The stereotype of taking all top university students as crème a la crème among job seekers is what has led to the present controversy.

翻譯：輕視基層的工作也是不公平的，因?yàn)樗鼈兛梢宰鳛橐粋€(gè)平臺(tái)，繼續(xù)做更偉大的事情。在求職者中，把所有優(yōu)秀的大學(xué)生都視為精英的刻板印象導(dǎo)致了目前的爭(zhēng)議。

好詞賞析：

belittle：輕視

serve as：作為

job seekers：求職者

lead to：導(dǎo)致