高等教育者增加太快！
Sophie and Tim are chatting in class.
蘇菲和提姆在課堂上聊天。
chat(v.)聊天in class上課
Sophie: On November 21st, the IMD Business School published the “IMD World Talent Rankings 2017” results, and Taiwan was ranked 23 out of the 63 countries, which is third in Asia.
蘇菲：瑞士洛桑的國際管理發展學院11/21發布「2017年IMD世界人才報告」，台灣在評比的63國家或地區中排行第23，在亞洲位居第3。
November(n.)11月IMD = International Institute for Management Developmentbusiness(n.)商業publish(v.)公布rank(v.)排名result(n.)結果out of從(某個數量或數字)中country(n.)國家third(adj.)第三的Asia(n.)亞洲
Tim: What about Malaysia and Singapore?
提姆：那馬來西亞和新加坡呢？
Malaysia(n.)馬來西亞Singapore(n.)新加坡
Sophie: Singapore is ahead of us, and Malaysia is behind us.
蘇菲：新加坡排名在我們前面，馬來西亞在我們後面。
ahead(adv.)領先be ahead of領先於us(pron.)我們behind(adv.)落後於
Tim: Looks like we are quite competitive.
提姆：看來我們的競爭力還不錯。
like(prep.)像quite(adv.)相當competitive(adj.)有競爭力的
Sophie: Don’t be too happy about it. According to the report, Taiwan’s cost of living and brain drain has poor ranking. We’re currently sitting at 47. That means we can’t retain our talent in our own country.
蘇菲：別高興太早，根據報告，台灣的生活成本及人才外流排名不佳，排名第47，也就是說，我們根本留不住人才。
too(adv.)太about(prep.)關於according to根據report(n.)報告cost(n.)成本living(n.)生活poor(adj.)差的，糟糕的currently(adv.)現在，當前sit(v.)位於mean(v.)表示……的意思retain(v.)保留，留住own(adj.)自己的
Tim: A scholar says, skilled people are leaving due to an increase of higher educated people not having enough job opportunities.
提姆：有學者表示，高等教育者增加太快，卻沒有足夠的就業機會，所以人才會外流。
scholar(n.)學者say(v.)說skilled(adj.)有技能的people(n.)人們leave(v.)離開due to由於increase(n.)增加higher(adv.)較高地educated(adj.)受過教育的enough(adj.)足夠的job(n.)工作opportunity(n.)機會
Sophie: That’s why I don’t plan on doing my masters, and want to work first to sharpen up my skills.
蘇菲：所以我不打算念研究所，還是先去工作磨練磨練。
why(n.)原因，理由plan(v.)計劃master(n.)碩士，碩士學位work(v.)工作first(adv.)先，首先sharpen(v.)增強，使敏銳sharpen up提高skill(n.)能力，技能