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.

  • -- E. M. Forster E·M·福斯特

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 won a Marshall scholarship to read philosophy at Oxford, and what I most wanted to do was strengthen public intellectual culture - I'd write books and essays to help us figure out who we wanted to be.

我获得了马歇尔奖学金,在牛津大学攻读哲学,我最想做的是加强公共知识文化——我要写书和论文,帮助我们弄清自己想成为什么样的人。

I think the rising and falling popularity of areas like hard SF and far-future SF is, to a considerable extent, the same as any other fashion.

我认为硬科幻和未来科幻等领域的流行程度的上升和下降,在很大程度上和其他时尚是一样的。

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。

But I don't think the popularity of flying has diminished a bit.

但我不认为飞行的受欢迎程度有所下降。