The weakening job market for all graduates is one reason.

毕业生就业市场总体不景气是原因。

Dean Khurana, faculty, parents, and most especially graduating students.

迪恩库拉纳，教职员工，家长们，尤其是你们毕业生们。

Many graduates prefer a safe civil-service career to the vicissitudes of starting a business.

许多德国毕业生宁愿有安稳的公务员职业，也不愿经历创业的沧桑。

Immediately after graduating from high school, some graduates choose to enter the work world.

高中毕业，些毕业生进入职场开始工作。

The commission ignores that for several decades America's colleges and universities have produced graduates who don't know the content and character of liberal education and are thus deprived of its benefits.

几十年来，美国的大学和学院产生了许多不知道自由教育内容和特点的毕业生，因此失去了享受此份利益。

But experts say governments also need to look at the consequences of churning out graduates.

但是专家表示政府也需要看到大量炮制毕业生的后果。

You recall afternoons talking on the phone while crouching in the bedroom closet, and being convinced your child would be the first Ivy League college student to graduate wearing pullovers at the ceremony.

你记得那些蜷缩在卧室的壁橱里与朋友通电话的下午，深信你的孩子将是第着套头衫出席毕业典礼的常春藤名牌大学毕业生。

Today was supposed to be a day of unbridled celebration and I know that's no longer true. I join all of you in grieving for your classmate Nate.

今天原本应该是狂欢的日子，不过我知道现在并不合适了（由于名毕业生在欧洲突然死亡）。让我们起为Nate同学表示哀悼。

Admittedly, a high salary is an effective incentive to entice graduates who often are in great need or eager to make money.

不可否认的是，高薪是吸引应届毕业生的有效方法，特别是那些那些急于挣钱，需求大的应届生。

The data came from surveys first administered to high school seniors in 1957.

这些数据来自于1957年首次对高中毕业生进行的调查。

Will you interview old students or new students?

你会访问毕业生还是在校生？

But outcomes are poor. Over half of those who finish school are functionally illiterate.

但结果很糟糕。其中超过半的毕业生是功能性文盲。

They sent her to a private high school where she graduated valedictorian.

他们把她送到所私立高中，在那里她以致告别辞的最优秀毕业生份毕业。

Okay, um...What do you say to a graduate of the UC Berkeley physics department?

好吧，你该跟伯克利分校的物理系毕业生说什么呢？

And if you're wondering what a gap year means, that's when school leavers take a year to work or travel before starting university.

如果你想知道间隔年是什么意思，间隔年指的是毕业生在上大学前花年时间去工作或旅行。

Perhaps you've noticed that many of our graduates are wearing blue robes today as a special symbol of this milestone.

也许你已经注意到了，今天我们的许多毕业生都穿着蓝色长袍，作为这里程碑的特殊象征。

He can't bear the injustice of college graduates who are crippled by student debt, and mothers who can't afford the cost of the childcare required to return to work to better the lives of their families.

他也不能忍受大学毕业生因学生债务、母亲因负担不起儿托费用无法回去工作改善家庭生活所遭遇的不公。

Heartfelt congratulations to all our graduates and their families, for the hard work and many accomplishments that have brought you to this day, and I'm especially grateful to John Lewis, for sharing his inspiring words and presence with us.

心地祝贺我们所有的毕业生和他们的家人，为那些使得你们造就今日的成就所付出的努力和做出的成绩，我要特别感谢约翰·刘易斯先生，谢谢他的到场和分享给我们的鼓舞人心的话语。

The job security that the US economy once offered to high school graduates has largely evaporated.

美国经济曾经提供给高中毕业生的工作保障已基本消失。

Class of 2018, throughout all the ups, downs and midnight street food we’ve consumed, the empathy, kindness, and love we have shown one another is nothing short of amazing.

2018届的毕业生，我们经历了起起伏伏。我们在夜市购买的夜宵，我们展现出来的同情，善良和爱，每样都是惊心动人的。