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。

Cities may now bulldoze private citizens' homes, farms and small businesses to make way for shopping malls or other developments.

现在,城市可能会推平私人住宅、农场和小型企业,为购物中心或其他开发项目让路。

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

幸福就是在另一个城市拥有一个大家庭,一个充满爱、关怀和紧密联系的家庭。

Being well dressed is a beautiful form of politeness.

穿着得体是礼貌的一种美丽形式。

Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.

电影是世界上最美丽的骗局。

Oxford, the paradise of dead philosophies.

牛津,死亡哲学的天堂。