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

可是反对党政府18年中都未能有效增剑桥里公立学校学生的比例。

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

今年，9%的大学毕业生申请教为先的支教岗位。

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

两所大学之间有着很多的共同点，因此常常被合称为桥。

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

直20世纪中叶, “桥”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？或许和剑桥的样本不能代表本可以获得的回报。

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

桥其他的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.

剑的街道上似乎没有人在活动。

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、剑桥等私立学校的预科生。

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

如果你打算来剑或剑桥，确保它是你的一个“l”注册。

Lamb then came to Oxbridge perhaps a hundred years ago.

大概一百年前，兰姆来剑。

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

“桥”的学院采用的教学方法主要是导师制，虽然意思相同，但在剑桥大学和大学分别被称作“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.

不幸的是，在剑午餐和用餐后不可避免的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.

在那次剑之行、午宴和晚宴上引发一大堆问题。

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的雄心，但在剑桥获得学位的英国学生总数却有所下降。

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

综合学校难以与独立学校和文法学校的温室条件相竞争，其中一些学校与剑桥大学有着数百年的渊源。

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.

一篇新论文利用和剑桥四所学院捐赠基金的档案资料解决这些难题。几百年来，这四所学院一直是房地产的大投资者。

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的学生可以去的地方，但就读剑桥（和剑桥）的英国本科生人数却有所下降。

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.

两校的历史分别可以追溯11世纪和13世纪，但是，“桥”一词的说法则起源于英国作家威廉.萨克雷于1849年完成的小说《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.

和平的精神像一朵云从天而降，因为如果说和平的精神存在于任何地方， 那就是在十月一个晴朗的早晨， 在剑桥的法院和四合院里。

As chance would have it, some stray memory of some old essay about revisiting Oxbridge in the long vacation brought Charles Lamb to mind—Saint Charles, said Thackeray, putting a letter of Lamb's to his forehead.

偶然间，一些关于在长假中重访剑的旧文章的一些模糊记忆让查尔斯兰姆想起圣查尔斯，萨克雷说，将兰姆的一封信放在他的额头上。