If people in the network just two degrees removed from the initial influential prove resistant, for example, the cascade of change won't propagate very far or affect many people.
例如，如果距离最初的影响力者仅隔两层关系的人表现出抵抗，那么这种变化的连锁反应就不会传播得很远，也不会影响到很多人。
The research of Till Von Wachter, the economist at Columbia University, suggests that not all people graduating into a recession see their life chances dimmed: those with degrees from elite universities catch up fairly quickly to where they otherwise would have been if they had graduated in better times; it is the masses beneath them that are left behind.
哥伦比亚大学的经济学家蒂尔·冯·瓦赫特的研究表明，并非所有在经济衰退期间毕业的人都会看到自己人生机会的减少：那些毕业于顶尖大学的人很快就能赶上原本在经济状况更好的时期毕业所应达到的水平；而他们之下的人群则被远远甩在后面。
I still grew up in an upper middle-class home with parents who didn’t have college degrees,” Schneider said.
施耐德说：'我仍然在一个中上阶层的家庭中长大，我的父母都没有大学学位。'
But the headlong push into bachelor’s degrees for all – and the subtle devaluing of anything less – misses an important point: That’s not the only thing the American economy needs.
但盲目地让所有人都攻读学士学位，并微妙地贬低任何低于这一层次的教育，却忽略了一个重要的问题：这并不是美国经济唯一需要的东西。
As degrees became universal, they became devalued.
随着学位变得普遍，它们的价值也逐渐降低。
例句取自历年考研英语真题，翻译为机器生成，仅供学习参考。