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津剑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%的津大学毕业生申请了教为先的支教岗位。

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

直到20世纪中叶, “”一词才逐渐被人们所接受。

Although both universities were founded more than seven centuries ago, the term Oxbridge is relatively young.

尽管两所大学都建成于7个多世纪以，这个说法却相对年轻。

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

其的赛事主要是橄榄合会对抗赛和橄榄对抗赛。

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。

Oxbridge is often used as shorthand for characteristics that the two institutions share.

通常被用来指代两所大学共有的特征。

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？或许津和剑的样本不能代表本可以获得的回报。

The interview is Oxbridge's ultimate test in selecting the best students.

面试是选拔人才的最后一关。

Lamb then came to Oxbridge perhaps a hundred years ago.

大概一百年，兰姆来到了剑。

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）是津、剑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，确保它是你的一个“l”注册。

In William Thackeray's novel Pendennis, published in 1849, the main character Pendennis wants to attend the fictional College, Oxbridge, but failed.

英国作家威廉萨克雷1849年完成的小说《潘登尼斯》中的主人公想进入一所叫的 大学求学却没有被录取。

For that visit to Oxbridge and the luncheon and the dinner had started a swarm of questions.

在那次剑之行、午宴和晚宴上引发了一大堆问题。

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

“”的学院采用的教学方法主要是导师制，虽然意思相同，但在剑大学和津大学分别被称作“监督”和“个别指导”。

Nobody seemed stirring in the streets of Oxbridge.

剑的街道上似乎没有人在活动。

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。

Oxbridge can be used as a noun referring to either or both universities or as an adjective describing them or their students.

可以作为一个普通名词使用，指代两所大学里任何一个学校，也可以用作一个形容词来修饰这两所大学或它们的学生。

All Oxbridge colleges are part of the university, and students studying the same subject are given lectures together, irrespective of which college they attend.

的每个学院都是大学的一部分，不管在哪个学院，选择同样课程的学生都在一起上课。

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，但在津剑获得学位的英国学生总数却有所下降。