牛津大学

George Austen, born of the gentleman-farmer class, appreciated education and chose to study theology at Oxford.

乔治奥斯汀出生的绅士农民阶级，赞赏教育和选择在牛津大学学习神学。

Hopefully, it will also refer readers back to Sir Wilfred's two great books, and to sentences as lovely as this: Memories of that first visit to the Marshes have never left me:(8) firelight on a half-turned face, the crying of geese, duck ★flighting[16] in to feed, a boy's voice singing somewhere in the dark, canoes moving in procession down a waterway, the setting sun seen crimson through the smoke of burning reed-beds, narrow waterways that wound still deeper into the Marshes.

但愿这本传记也能让读者重新想起威福瑞那两本伟大著作，想起这些动人的语句：&沼泽地的第一次旅行始终萦怀：映照在侧头而望的脸上的火光，群鹅的鸣叫，结对飞入觅食的鸭子，黑暗某处男孩的歌声，顺水而行的独木舟，透过芦苇垫燃烧发出的浓烟看到那绯红的落日，狭窄的河道蜿蜒而入沼泽深处。&★★★NOTES 注释★★★ [1]Wilfred Thesiger：威福瑞塞西格，毕业于牛津大学，既是一名冒险家，也是一名出色的军人。

An attempt to enable computers to assess the emotional meaning of text is being led by Stephen Pulman of the University of Oxford and Karo Moilanen, one of his doctoral students.

牛津大学的史蒂芬·波曼和他带的博士生卡罗·莫拉内正在尝试让电脑解读文字中流露出的情绪。

The Methodists (a name which carried over from their Oxford days) began preaching in the open air.

该卫（一名称，该名称进行超过从他们的牛津大学天）开始鼓吹在露天。

"A useful computer by 2020 is realistic," says Andrew Steane of the quantum-computing group at the University of Oxford, UK.

译： &一个可用的量子计算机将在2020年出现。&英国牛津大学量子计算组的Andrew Steane透露。

Or used as sobriquets (a blue in university sport, a red ＝ communist); and names of other non-personal things.

或用作绰号的要大写(如牛津大学的校队运动员和共产党人)；以及其他非人称的事物名称要大写。

Most Oxford-trained lawyers with an interest in international politics would find that too schmaltzy, too American.

很多有着国家政治兴趣的牛津大学受训的律师可能发现太伤感主义，太美国化。

Happily, a number of falsehoods long popular in Africa are being exposed. One is that dictatorship and one-party states do better at imposing discipline to spur economic growth. Look at China, some say. A recent paper by two Oxford academics rubbishes that theory, not just in Africa. The same paper rightly lauds another good African trend, to impose term limits on leaders.

可喜的是，许多在非洲长期流行的谎言正逐步被揭露，其一就是专制或一党执政的国家能够在通过强加政策拉动经济增长方面做得更好，一些人说中国就是个例子，两位牛津大学的学者最近发表文章贬斥了这一说法，这篇文章同时公正地赞扬了非洲的另一个很好的趋势，那就是对领导人的任期加以限制。

Palin and Jones, who'd met doing plays and revues at Oxford, were another team.

Palin 和 Jones 在牛津大学的时候曾一齐表演话剧，形成了另一个小组。

Analysts say the protesters' success in prising open Thailand's social divide will make it difficult for Oxford-educated Mr. Abhisit to parlay an end to the Bangkok protests into a durable solution to Thailand's crisis.

分析人士认为，由于示威者扩大了泰国社会的裂痕，牛津大学出身的阿披实将很难利用曼谷示威的结束，顺势持久地解决泰国的危机。

With Death guitarist Schuldiner adopting vocal duties, the band made a major impact on the scene.

随着死亡的吉他手Schuldiner接受主唱的职务，乐队在现实中树立了重要的影响。

But he could still end up breakfasting on Swiss-government issue muesli because all six are accused of nicking around 45 million pounds they should have paid to FIFA.

不过他最后仍有可能沦为瑞士政府&议事餐桌&上的一道早餐，因为这所有六个人都被指控把本应支付给国际足联的大约4500万英镑骗了个精光。