The truth is that Oxford is simply a very beautiful city in which it is convenient to segregate a certain number of the young of the nation while they are growing up.

  • -- Evelyn Waugh 伊芙琳·沃

事实上,牛津只是一个非常美丽的城市,在这里,人们可以很方便地隔离这个国家的一部分正在成长的年轻人。

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If any man claims the Negro should be content... let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin and go to live in the Negro section of a large city. Then and only then has he a right to such a claim.

如果有人说黑人应该感到满足……让他说,他愿意改变自己的肤色,到大城市的黑人区去生活。只有到那时,他才有权提出这样的要求。

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。

What the hell kind of man decides to dress up as a bat and run around the city? There's got to be something a little bit loose in there.

到底是什么样的人决定打扮成蝙蝠在城市里到处跑?里面一定有什么东西松了。

Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about.

保持微笑,因为生活是一件美丽的事情,有那么多值得微笑的事情。

I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy, and driven.

我简单,复杂,大方,自私,没有吸引力,漂亮,懒惰,有动力。

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

唉,牛津式的态度是无法定义的;我要说的是站不住脚。