電視真人秀錢途要好過牛津劍橋?大綱

Forget the struggles of completing an Oxbridge degree -- a group of economists have calculated that appearing as a contestant on British reality TV show Love Island for eight weeks is likely to net you more money over the course of your life than three years at Oxford or Cambridge university.
忘掉讀完牛津和劍橋大學學位要付出的艱苦努力吧！一些經濟學家估計，在英國電視真人秀《愛島》作爲參賽選手出鏡8周給你的一生帶來的收入，可能要超過在牛津或劍橋大學苦讀3年。

Analysis by Frontier Economics, an economic consultancy, estimated that someone who appears on the show could expect to earn 1.1 million pounds from subsequent sponsorship and appearance fees compared with a lifetime average return of 815,000 pounds from completing an undergraduate degree at Oxbridge.
經濟諮詢機構Frontier Economics的分析估計，參加這檔電視節目的人預計可從隨後的贊助和出場費中獲得110萬英鎊收入，而完成牛津/劍橋大學本科學位的平均終身回報爲81.5萬英鎊。

"If you've got an offer from Oxbridge and Love Island, you're better off going on Love Island," said Kristine Dislere, who completed her masters degree in economics at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada.
在加拿大溫哥華的不列顛哥倫比亞大學完成經濟學碩士學位的克里斯蒂娜·迪斯萊爾表示：“如果你同時得到牛津/劍橋大學和《愛島》的邀請，去《愛島》更有錢途。”

But Dislere cautioned that despite the financial gains from up to eight weeks of event television, any teenager should still favor the academic route because the odds of getting a place are so much better.
但迪斯萊爾告誡稱，儘管最多8周的電視節目會帶來不菲的金錢收益，但青少年仍應看重學術路線，因爲進入大學的機率要大得多。

"One major thing we haven't included are the odds of getting to Love Island and the odds are stacked against you," she said.
她說道：“我們沒有計入的重要問題是躋身《愛島》的機率，這種機率對你十分不利。”