The latest official statistics show that the long ice age of wage stagnation¹ is grinding on - and that graduate earnings² have been in a deep freeze stretching back for the past decade.

最新的官方统计显示，漫长的工资滞长的冰河时代还在稳步推进 – 过去十年来，大学毕业生的收入一直深度冻结。

Since university tuition fees in England rose to ￡9,000 there have been recurrent questions about whether it's still financially advantageous³ to get a degree.

自从大学学费升至9千英镑，对攻读学位是否仍然处于经济上有利的地位，一直存在反复的疑问。

The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills has published its latest figures on the graduate labour market - and it shows that graduates are still getting a career benefit.

商业，创新和技能部公布了大学生就业市场的最新数字 – 数字显示，大学生仍然获得职业好处。

They earn more on average than non-graduates and are much less likely to be unemployed⁴. Postgraduates⁵ earn even more and those with higher grades of degrees are paid more than those with lower.

他们一般说来比非大学生挣得多，失业的可能性小得多。 研究生挣得还要多，学历高的比学历低的获得更多报酬。

But the big backdrop is the long-term flatlining in earnings. Employment levels have picked up towards pre-recession levels, but pay is still under a layer of permafrost.

但大背景是长期的收入停滞。就业水平已向衰退前的水平回升，但薪酬仍然处于永冻层下。

The latest graduate earnings figures track median salaries back to 2006. There was a slight upwards⁶ nudge between 2006 and 2008, for young and older graduates - and since then barely a flicker⁷.

最新的大学生收入数字显示，薪酬中位数回到了2006年。新老毕业生的薪酬大约在2006年至2008年间略有上升 – 从那以来几乎没有变动。

What is really tough about these figures is that they are not real-terms numbers, taking into account inflation. These are salaries in cash terms.

这些数字真正严峻的地方在于，把通胀考虑在内，它们并不是实际收入。这些只是现金意义上的薪水而已。

A young graduate in 2008 was typically earning about ￡24,000 and in 2015 a young graduate was still typically earning ￡24,000.

2008年毕业的大学生通常挣大约2.4万镑，2015年刚毕业的大学生一般还是挣2.4万镑。

Apart from the rising costs of bills and underlying⁸ inflation, think about the other extra factors hitting graduate finances. They will have ￡27,000 in tuition fee debt, not to mention sky-rocketing rent and property prices. More money is going out, without any more going in.

除了上升的账单费用和潜在的通胀，想想对大学生财务造成打击的其它额外因素吧。他们将欠下2.7万镑的学费，更不用说飙升的房租和房价。更多的钱要花出去，却没有更多的钱进来。

The Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics has described this stagnation in earnings as unlike anything since the 1920s - with an estimated 9% real-terms drop in average earnings since the recession.

敦伦经济学院的经济表现中心称此次收入滞长不像上世纪20年代以来的任何一次 – 从衰退以来平均收入以实际价值计下降了约9%。