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帮我划分一下句子成分并翻译吧。

The skip-college advocates’ contention—that, with the economic downturn, a college degree may not be the best investment—has its appeal. Given the high cost of attending college in the United States, the question of whether a student is getting his or her money’s worth tends to loom large with whoever is paying the tuition fees and the meal-plan bills.

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The skip-college advocates’ contention（主语）—that, with the economic downturn（状语）, a college degree may not be the best investment（说明contention是什么的宾语从句）—has its appeal（对investment的定语修饰）
倡导跳过大学的人认为，随着经济的衰退，大学学位可能不是最好的投资吸引
Given the high cost of attending college in the United States（状语）, the question （主语）of whether a student is getting his or her money’s worth（of修饰问题） tends to loom large（谓语宾语） with whoever is paying the tuition fees and the meal-plan bills（状语）.
鉴于在美国读大学的花费高，不论是谁支付了学费或餐费，学生花费的钱是否值得变成了很大的问题

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可以再帮我看一个句子吗？Even so, one needn’t necessarily be a liberal-arts graduate to regard as distinctly and speciously utilitarian the idea that higher education is, above all, a route to economic advancement

可以再帮我看一个句子吗？Even so, one needn’t necessarily be a liberal-arts graduate to regard as distinctly and speciously utilitarian the idea that higher education is, above all, a route to economic advancement