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The truth is that Oxford is simply a very beautiful city in which it is convenient to segregate a certain number of the young of the nation while they are growing up.

  • -- Evelyn Waugh 伊芙琳·沃

事实上，牛津只是一个非常美丽的城市，在这里，人们可以很方便地隔离这个国家的一部分正在成长的年轻人。

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Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another.

牛津就是牛津:不像剑桥，它不仅仅是年轻人的聚集地。也许它想让它的囚犯爱它，而不是彼此相爱。

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I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own.

我认为拥有土地而不破坏它是任何人都想拥有的最美丽的艺术。

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Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.

科学是有组织的常识，许多美好的理论都被丑陋的事实扼杀了。

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I like a walking culture; I need to be in a city where you can walk everywhere.

我喜欢步行文化;我需要去一个到处都可以步行的城市。

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The Oxford manner is, alas, indefinable; I was going to say indefensible.

唉，牛津式的态度是无法定义的;我要说的是站不住脚。

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A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.

乡下人夹在两个律师中间，就像鱼夹在两只猫中间一样。

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