Oxbridge
英 [ˈɒks.brɪdʒ]
美 [ˈɑːks.brɪdʒ]
- n. 牛津和剑桥大学；该校之学生或毕业生
- adj. 牛津大学和剑桥大学的
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记忆方法
1、Oxford + Cambridge.
中文词源
Oxbridge 牛津剑桥大学
来自Oxford和Cambridge的合成词。
英语词源
- Oxbridge
- 1849, a conflation of Oxford and Cambridge, used in reference to the characteristics common to the two universities.
权威例句
- 1. You don't have to go to Oxbridge to receive a good university education.
- 不上牛津剑桥也能获得良好的教育.
- 2. Last year Oxbridge graduates accounted for 41% of entrants to the civil service's fast stream to promotion.
- 去年加入快速晋职队伍的新公务员中，牛津和剑桥大学的毕业生占了41%。
- 3. The next day there was an immense excitement in Boniface College, Oxbridge.
- 第二天,牛桥大学的博尼法斯学院引起了轩然大波.
- 4. Pen had passed a few days at his uncle's lodgings before they set out for Oxbridge.
- 来牛桥之前,潘在叔父的寓所盘桓了几天.
- 5. Dick White's delivery was much more in the style of the Oxbridge don.
- 迪克·怀特的讲演颇有牛津和剑桥两个大学的导师的味道.