How is it that graduates are over-educated for the jobs they land and employers are complaining that there is a shortage of highly skilled labor?

毕业生接受过度教育来适应所求职业，而老板们却正在抱怨高级技术工人稀缺，这又作何解释呢？

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The only way to atone for being occasionally a little overdressed is by being always absolutely over-educated.

只有一个办法可以弥补偶尔衣着有点过火的错失，那就是永远地、绝对地读书过多。

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Not long ago a fashionable anxiety in many western countries was that youngsters were being over educated that is, schooled beyond society's needs.

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Why not the young, desperate, and over-educated?

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They tended to be cynical, hilarious, and over-educated, with years of therapy and contemporary literature behind them, and I was afraid to mention that I was slipping off to church and singing about Jesus on Sundays instead of sleeping late, cooking brunch, and reading the New York Times Book Review as I'd been raised to do.

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