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When I left for Oxford, I gave her a cardboard box full of paperback books on civil rights and urged her to read them.

我离开美国赴牛津大学前给过她一纸盒民权方面的平装书，力劝她多看看。

Fascinated by physics, Stephen concentrated in the subject at Oxford's University College, but did not distinguish himself.

由于迷上了物理学，斯蒂芬在牛津大学学院集中精力学习这门学科，但成绩并不出色。

The Oxford Dictionary of English says much the same thing but specifies that this is applicable to a man, not a woman.

而牛津英语字典的解释也差不多，只不过强调了这个形容词是专用来形容男士的，而非女士。

This represents the earliest citation that The Oxford English Dictionary has for a long gun being referred to as a rifle.

在《牛津英语词典》里，这也是第一条将长枪称为rifle的引证。

At Oxford I have been a good deal used to have a man lean on me for the length of a street, and you are only a fly in the comparison.

我在牛津上学的时候，经常让一个小伙子靠在身上行走，一走就是一条街那么远。比较起来，你就像只飞蝇那么轻。

Some banks turned up to Oxford's finance fair but did not recruit anyone, Mr Black says.

布莱克表示，有些投行参加了牛津举办的金融业招聘会，但没有招聘任何学生。

Avoiding and then adjusting for any such bias, however, is at the heart of the work of the Oxford cancer epidemiology unit.

然而，避免和调整诸如此类的偏见是牛津大学癌症流行病学部门的工作核心。

In the evenings he studied hard for his exams, and most mornings he took tourists around Oxford.

晚上他努力学习为考试作准备，而大多数上午他带领游人参观牛津大学。

When I last saw her a quarter of a century ago, she was a scruffy, cerebral Oxford undergraduate.

我上一次见她，还是25年前。那时候，她是个不修边幅、思维理智的牛津大学学生。

Liu was extremely happy to have been admitted to Oxford, but soon he found he was out of his depth in his major.

刘很高兴被牛津大学录取，但很快发现自己的专业实力差的很远。

So, a different, and rather wonderful, sort of alchemy has taken place in Oxford.

因此，一个不同的，很美妙的、有些像炼金术的东西在牛津出现了。

The Oxford English Corpus would have let me look at numerous contexts of the word to tease out whether this was the case.

若有牛津英语语料库，我或许就能从大量的语境中分辨出事实是否如此。

It's not enough to be graduating from Oxford or Cambridge with a first class degree and to speak four languages.

仅仅以一流成绩从牛津或剑桥毕业、能讲四种语言是不够的。

In fact, when he was applying to Oxford, none of this school teacher thought he had a chance.

实际上，当他申请牛津的时候，学校的老师没有一个人看好他有机会。

Lack of funds later forced him to leave Pembroke College, Oxford, before earning his degree.

没有学费，约翰逊只得在拿到学位之前离开了牛津彭布罗克学院。

When he visited his doctor in Deddington and was immediately referred to Oxford's Churchill Hospital.

他去德丁顿看医生时，医生马上让他去了牛津丘吉尔医院。

One of the Oxford team's best players was injured and was replaced by another who proved to be a poor substitute.

牛津队最优秀的队员中有一位受伤了，由一位球技实在很差的队员替补了。

in Oxford, bought a brand-new copy for 35 pounds, dirtied it up a bit and tore off the paper cover, writing a fictitious name in the front.

于是这位较有钱的学生去了牛津的布拉克韦尔书店，花35英镑买了一本全新的，先是把书弄脏一点，然后撕去封面，在书面写了一个假名。

It was harder than I thought it would be to explain my short life and why it made sense for them to send me to Oxford.

要讲清自己当时这短短的人生道路，要讲清他们有什么理由送我去牛津，的确比我原来想象的难。

That might have been a bit ahead of its time -- "globalism" didn't even enter the Oxford English Dictionary until 1986.

这样的情节在当时或许太超前了，“全球主义”这个词直到1986年才被收入牛津英语词典。