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

可是反对党政府18年中都未能有效增加牛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%的牛大学毕业生申请了教为先的支教岗位。

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？或许牛的样本不能代表本可以获得的回报。

According to records, forty six percent of Conservative Party members of Parliament were graduates of Oxbridge.

根据记录，46% 的保守党议员是牛毕业生。

Most senior civil servants are also Oxbridge graduates.

大多数高级公务员也是牛毕业生。

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，因此常常被合称为牛。

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

直到20世纪中叶, “牛”一词才逐渐被人们所接受。

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.

一篇新论文利用了牛所学院捐赠基金的档案资料解决了这些难题。几百年来，这所学院一直是房地产的大投资者。

These two rival universities have been nicknamed Oxbridge.

这两所竞争激烈的大学被昵称为“牛”。

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

牛其他的赛事主要是橄榄球联合会对抗赛橄榄球联盟对抗赛。

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到11世纪13世纪，但是，“牛”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 principal teaching method at Oxbridge colleges is the supervision or tutorial, used at Cambridge and Oxford respectively, though with the same meaning.

“牛”的学院采用的教学方法主要是导师制，虽然意思相同，但在大学牛大学分别被称作“监督”“个别指导”。

Attending Oxbridge means something quite different these days.

如今，就读牛的意义已经大不相同了。

Okay then, that is it for today's episode on Oxbridge.

好的，今天关于牛的节目就到这里。

In some ways Oxford and Cambridge--- elegant, affluent universities known collectively as " Oxbridge" --- resemble U.S. Ivy League schools, which have long tried to attract minority and less well-off students through scholarships and outreach programs.

在某些方面，牛——优雅、富裕的大学，统称为“牛”——类似于美国的常春藤盟校，长期以来，它们一直试图通过奖学金外展计划来吸引少数族裔经济条件较差的学生。

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.

平的精神像一朵云从天而降，因为如果说平的精神存在于任何地方， 那就是在十月一个晴朗的早晨， 在牛的法院合院里。

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，但在牛获得学位的英国学生总数却有所下降。

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）是牛、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.

如果你要去牛，确保你的报名是单个“l”。

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文法学校的温室条件相竞争，其中一些学校与牛大学有着数百年的渊源。