But your government had 18 years to get more of them into Oxbridge.

可是反对党政府18年中都未能有效增加牛津剑里公立校生比例。

This year 9% of all final-year students from Oxbridge applied for Teach First.

今年，9%牛津大毕业生申请了教为先支教岗位。

There are a great many similarities between them, so they are jointly referred to as Oxbridge.

两所大之间有着很多共同点，因此常常被合称为牛。

It was not until the middle of the 20th century that Oxbridge was accepted gradually.

直到20世纪中叶, “牛”一词才逐渐被人们所接受。

What explains the discrepancy? Perhaps the Oxbridge sample is not representative of the returns that could have been achieved.

如何解释这种差异呢？或许牛津和剑样本不能代表本可以获得回报。

The other major Oxbridge competitions are the Rugby Union Varsity Match and the Rugby League Varsity Match.

牛其他赛事主要是橄榄球联合会对抗赛和橄榄球联盟对抗赛。

Nobody seemed stirring in the streets of Oxbridge.

牛剑街道上似乎没有人在活动。

Lamb then came to Oxbridge perhaps a hundred years ago.

大概一百年前，兰姆来到了牛剑。

And of those newspaper columnists, 33 percent, one in three, are part of that independent school, Oxbridge, pathway pipeline.

在这些报纸专栏作家中，有 33%（三分之一）是牛津、剑等私立校预科生。

If you're going to come to Oxbridge or Cambridge, make sure it's a one " l" enrolment for you.

如果你打算来牛剑或剑，确保它是你一个“l”注册。

The principal teaching method at Oxbridge colleges is the supervision or tutorial, used at Cambridge and Oxford respectively, though with the same meaning.

“牛”院采用教方法主要是导师制，虽然意思相同，但在剑大和牛津大分别被称作“监督”和“个别指导”。

The inevitable sequel to lunching and dining at Oxbridge seemed, unfortunately, to be a visit to the British Museum.

不幸是，在牛剑午餐和用餐后不可避免后续似乎是参观大英博物馆。

For that visit to Oxbridge and the luncheon and the dinner had started a swarm of questions.

在那次牛剑之行、午宴和晚宴上引发了一大堆问题。

But despite an ambition to improve social mobility, the total number of UK students being awarded places at Oxbridge has gone down.

但是， 尽管有改善社会流动性雄心，但在牛津剑获得位英国生总数却有所下降。

Comprehensives struggle to compete with the hothouse conditions of independent and grammar schools, some of which have links to Oxbridge dating back centuries.

综合校难以与独立校和文法校温室条件相竞争，其中一些校与牛津剑大有着数百年渊源。

Despite these being the places to go to for high-achieving students, the number of undergraduate students from the UK attending Oxbridge (Oxford and Cambridge) has dropped.

尽管这些是成绩优异生可以去地方，但就读牛津剑（牛津和剑）英国本科生人数却有所下降。

A new paper deals with these difficulties by drawing on the archives of the endowment funds of four Oxbridge colleges, which for centuries have been big investors in property.

一篇新论文利用了牛津和剑四所院捐赠基金档案资料解决了这些难题。几百年来，这四所院一直是房地产大投资者。

The history of the two universities can be traced back to the 11th and 13th centuries respectively, whereas the term Oxbridge originated from the British writer William Thackeray's novel Tendennis, published in 1849.

两校历史分别可以追溯到11世纪和13世纪，但是，“牛”一词说法则起源于英国作家威廉.萨克雷于1849年完成小说《潘登尼斯》。

The spirit of peace descended like a cloud from heaven, for if the spirit of peace dwells anywhere, it is in the courts and quadrangles of Oxbridge on a fine October morning.

和平精神像一朵云从天而降，因为如果说和平精神存在于任何地方， 那就是在十月一个晴朗早晨， 在牛津剑法院和四合院里。

And remembering the lunch party at Oxbridge, and the cigarette ash and the Manx cat and Tennyson and Christina Rossetti all in a bunch, it seemed possible that the impediment lay there.

还记得牛剑午餐会，还有烟灰、马恩岛猫、丁尼生和克里斯蒂娜·罗塞蒂， 这些障碍似乎就在那里。