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津剑桥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%的牛津大学毕业生申请了教为先的支教岗位。

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

面试是牛桥选拔人才的最后一关。

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桥。

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

牛桥其他的赛事主要是橄榄球联合会对抗赛和橄榄球联盟对抗赛。

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

直到20世纪中叶, “牛桥”一词才逐渐被人们所接受。

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

牛桥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？或许牛津和剑桥的样本不能代表本可以获得的回报。

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个多世纪以前，牛桥这个说法却相对年轻。

Lamb then came to Oxbridge perhaps a hundred years ago.

大概一百年前，兰姆来到了牛剑。

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）是牛津、剑桥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.

如果你打算来牛剑或剑桥，确保它是你的一个“l”注册。

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

在那次牛剑之行、午宴和晚宴上引发了一大堆问题。

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

牛桥 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。

Nobody seemed stirring in the streets of Oxbridge.

牛剑的街道上似乎没有人在活动。

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牛桥的 大学求学却没有被录取。

The inevitable sequel to lunching and dining at Oxbridge seemed, unfortunately, to be a visit to the British Museum.

不幸的是，在牛剑午餐和用餐后不可避免的后续似乎是参观大英博物馆。

Summer schools and open days, plus the wealth of information about the admissions process on their websites, all make Oxbridge more accessible than ever.

现在人们可以通过很多途径来了解剑桥和牛津，比如，暑期学校、开放日，官方网站上关于录取流程的详细说明等等。

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

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

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，但在牛津剑桥获得学位的英国学生总数却有所下降。