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 Woman is naturally more helpless than the other Sex; and a Man of Honour and Sense should have this in his View in all Manner of Commerce with her.

女人天生比其他性别更无助;一个有身份有见识的人在跟她做生意的时候,在他看来都应该这样。

Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another.

牛津就是牛津:不像剑桥,它不仅仅是年轻人的聚集地。也许它想让它的囚犯爱它,而不是彼此相爱。

I lived my twenties in a very public manner and if anyone's twenties are documented it's not always going to be pretty.

我以一种非常公开的方式过着二十几岁的生活,如果有人把二十几岁的生活记录下来,那并不总是那么美好。

But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband?

但是,唉!有哪个可怜的女人受过这样的教育:她应该有一个比找个丈夫更高的目标?

Fortune and glass break soon, alas!

不幸的是,好运和好运很快就会到来!