In recent years, because of various reasons, almost all college students are interested in obtaining various cetificates. Just randomly ask a student on campus what he or she is busy doing, quite possible, you may get the answer that he is preparing for the exam of a certificate of some kind. Why does obtaining a certificate become so popular?

近幾年，由于各種原因，幾乎所有的大學生熱衷于獲得各類證書。只是隨便問幾個在校學生他們在忙什么，很可能你會得到這樣的答案，他們正在為某種證書考試做準備。為什么考證變得如此流行？

As far as I am concerned, there are threemain reasons. To begin with, it is the employment pressure that urges college students to get certificates. With the admission expansion of colleges,  the job market is very competitive. Graduates hope that get more certificates to get more chances. Moreover, diploma and certificateds are still vital standards by which a good many employers measure a person's ability. Therefore, in order to increase their competitiveness, students have to get several certificates at hand and use them as astepping-stone to job. Finally, in order to make money,many education and training institutionsencourage students to participate in training courses to obatain certificates.

在我看來，主要有三個原因。首先，就業壓力迫使學生去獲得證書。隨著大學的擴招，就業市場競爭很大。畢業生希望獲得更多證書從而獲得更多機會。另外，文憑和證書仍然是很多招聘者衡量一個人的能力的重要標準。因此，為了提高他們的競爭力，學生們不得不有幾個證書在手，并把它們當做工作的墊腳石。最后，為了賺錢，很多教育和培訓機構鼓勵學生參加培訓課程取得證書。

From my point of view, it's good for college students to have some certificates if they are sure what they would do in the future, because students can get knowledge during the preparation. But crazy in getting certificates blindly is not encouraged. It will be nothing but wasting time. In short, we should focus on improving ability but not on how many certificates we get.

在我看來，如果大學生知道他們將來想要做什么，有一些證書對他們來說是好的，因為在準備的過程中他們可以學到知識。但是不鼓勵盲目瘋狂的考證，這樣只會浪費時間。總之，我們應該注重提高能力而不是我們獲得了多少證書。