翻译全文 You are busy filling out the application form for a position you really need; let's assume you once actually completed a couple of years of college work or even that you completed your degree. Isn't it tempting to lie just a little, to claim on the form that your diploma represents a Harvard degree? Or that you finished an extra couple of years back at State University?
More and more people are turning to an utter deception like this to land their first job or to move ahead in their careers. For personnel officers, like most Americans, value degrees from famous schools. A job applicant may have a good education anyway, but he or she assumes that chances of being hired are better with a diploma from a well-known university. Registrars at most well-known colleges say that they deal with dishonest claims like these at the rate of about one per week.
Personnel officers do check up on degrees listed on application forms. If it turns out that an applicant is lying, most colleges are unwilling to accuse the applicant directly. One Ivy League school refers to them as "special cases." One well-known West Coast school, in perhaps the most delicate phrase of all, says these claims are made by "no such people".
To avoid complete lies, some job seekers claim that they "attended" or "were associated with" a college or university. After careful checking, a personnel officer may discover that "attending" means being dismissed after one semester. It may be that "being associated with" a college means that the job-seeker visited hisyounger brother for a football weekend. One school that keeps records of false claims says that the practicedates back at least to the turn of the center-that's when they began keeping records, anyhow.
If you don't want to lie or even stretch the truth, there are companies that will sell you a fake diploma.One company, with offices in New York and on the West Coast, will put your name on a diploma from any number of nonexistent colleges. The price begins at around twenty dollars for a diploma from "Smoot State University". The prices increase rapidly for a degree from the "University of Purdue." As there is no Smoot State and the real school in Indiana is properly called Purdue University, the prices seem rather high for one sheet of paper.
越来越多人在简历使用假学历，大多人都是填写一些美国的知名大学。尤其是在申请第一份工作的时候，或者想在工作上崭露头角的人。其中不乏高学历者， 他们觉得重知名大学出来的人的入取机会更大。
私人企业都按简历上的学业证书的学校查询是否有假， 而学校也会如实汇报给企业。比如说Ivy League school 告诉他们一个＂特别的事情＂。 在一个知明大学 West Coast school, 他们曾今也发生过相同的事件，他们给出出的答案是查无此人。
为了避免彻头彻尾的谎言， 有些人会在简历上写”曾今上过”或“有相关过”某间学校。 经过查寻，这些人所说的“曾今上过”的意思是上过一个学期后遭到辞退。而所谓的“有相关过”就是曾经去过，哥哥学校的运动会。
如果你不想说谎，甚至延伸的真相。有一些专门贩卖假的学业证书的公司。 在纽约的West Coast就有一家这样的公司，它们会帮你找一个不存在的学校,然后把你的名字放在该学校的学业证分上。只要二十元左右，你的名字就能出现在"Smoot State University"的证书上。而"University of Purdue"大学的证书就更贵。因为大学"Smoot State University"是不存在的，而在印度真的有一所大学叫 PurdueUniversity。这些价钱几乎和纸一样便宜。
