Oxford: 牛津城 ox:公牛; 阉牛 cow:奶牛 cattle: 牛 calf: 小牛,牛犊
Dallas Mavericks 达拉斯小牛队 Chicago bulls 芝加哥公牛队
Cambrige: 剑桥城
ruinv. : 毁坏(名声 名誉,抽象意义) destroy v.:破坏(具体意思) the scandal ruins...
over smoking (drinking) ruins my health.
I'm ruined(broke). 我完蛋了(没钱了). I'm down and out. I'm down fall.
ruthlessly : 无情地 ruth : 有情的 同情 怜悯 ruthful a.:有同情心的
sympathize v. 同情 mercy n.:怜悯 merciless : 残忍 无情的
marble-hearted flinty-hearted
Lesson13
Oxford has been ruined by the motor industry. The peace which Oxford once knew, and which a great university city should always have, has been swept ruthlessly away; and no benefactions and research endowments can make up for the change in
character which the city has suffered. At six in the morning the old courts shake to the roar of buses taking the next shift to Cowley and Pressed Steel, great lorries with a double deck cargo of cars for export lumber past Magdalen and the
University Church. Loads of motor-engines are hurried hither and thither and the streets are thronged with a population which has no interest in learning and knows no studies beyond servo-systems and distributors, compression ratios and camshafts.Theoretically the marriage of an old seat of learning and tradition with a new and wealthy industry might be expected to produce some interesting children. It might have been thought that the culture of the university would radiate out and