1·That is a college degree, which can be a transformative tool in our society when you talk about upward mobility.
那个东西就是大学学位，当你谈到向更高层社会流动时，它可以成为我们社会变革的工具。
2·College is the tower of ivory bestriding real life. Thus, it ought to guide the entire society with a value surpassing any mundane life.
大学是一座高居于现实生活之上的象牙塔，它应该能有一种超越世俗生活的价值高度引导社会。
3·I think the key lies helping college graduates better integrate themselves into the fabric of city life and find a suitable position in society.
我认为关键在于帮助大学毕业生更好的融入城市生活，以及帮助他们在社会中找到自己的合理定位。
4·As a small society, college is of course full of competition.
在大学这样一个小型社会中，竞争的激烈不言而喻。
5·College is just like a small society. Living under the same sun, we need to be sociable .So it is necessarry for us to communicate with others.
大学就是一个缩小版的社会，所以同在一片蓝天下，我们都要学会与人交往。
6·Yet these anxieties should not distract us from a second, more important, cleavage in American society—the one between college graduates and everyone else.
但是这些焦虑并不应该使我们忽略下一个更重要的鸿沟——大学毕业生和其他人。
7·For every African-American male who goes on to finish college instead of dropping out of high school, society saves $294, 000.
每一个非洲裔美国男性完成大学学位比他在高中辍学为社会节省29.4万美元。
8·He had been her husband's college friend;was now a journalist, and in no sense a society man or "a man about town," which were, perhaps, some of the reasons she had never met him.
他是她丈夫在大学时期的朋友，现在是个记者，毫无疑问这是一个热衷社交的男人，或者应称之为“城里的男人”，或许这也是某种他们一直未能见面的原因。
9·Some people say that it is not a problem for college students to spend much. After all, the society is progressing and the life is being enriched.
第二段提出了一些人的看法，他们认为社会进步了，生活水平提高了，大学生多花一点也无可厚非。
10·Society at large loses the added productivity contributed by a college graduate compared with someone who never earned a college degree.
与那些没有取得大学学位的人相比社会失去了大学毕业生的增值生产力。