The Oxford manner is, alas, indefinable; I was going to say indefensible.

  • -- Robbie Ross 罗比罗斯

唉,牛津式的态度是无法定义的;我要说的是站不住脚。

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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。

A strange manner of battle, where one side works by constant motion and ceaseless charges, while the other can but endure passively as it stands fixed to the sod.

这是一种奇特的战斗方式,一方靠不断的运动和不断的冲锋作战,而另一方则只能被动地忍受,因为它是固定在地上的。

Live your life in the manner that you would like your kids to live theirs.

按照你希望你的孩子过他们的生活的方式生活。

Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.

唉,到了一定年龄,每个人都要对自己的容貌负责。

Oxford, the paradise of dead philosophies.

牛津,死亡哲学的天堂。

Fortune and glass break soon, alas!

不幸的是,好运和好运很快就会到来!