剑桥从去年的榜眼掉到了第四，而牛津也从第三滑落到第六。
Cambridge was in fourth place, down from second last year, and Oxford was sixth, down from third.
剑桥大学的排名从第三名上升至第二名，UCL从第七名跃升至第四名，而牛津则下滑到第五名。
而牛津和剑桥之争也历史悠久，这要追溯到剑桥是由从牛津分离出来的学者所创立的时日。
The rivalry between Oxford and Cambridge also has a long history, dating back to the days when Cambridge was founded by dissident scholars from Oxford.
直到2010年，这项赛事只持续了30年，剑桥大学胜了16次，而牛津大学胜了13次，两队曾在1994年打了个平手。
Until 2010, it has been contested for only 30 years, and Cambridge leads the series 16 to 13, with one draw in 1994.
牛津高中的校长朱迪斯·卡莱尔说，为英国普通中等教育证书而烦恼没有任何意义，因为它不能反映学生的性格。
Judith Carlisle, headmistress of Oxford High School, said there was no point fretting over GCSEs because they don't reflect character.
因此，科学家们希望更多地了解乌鸦在它们的自然栖息地是如何活动的，而埃克塞特大学和牛津大学的一个研究小组正在新喀里多尼亚进行研究。
So scientists want to find out much more about how the crows behave in their native habitat, and a team from Exeter and Oxford universities is carrying out research in New Caledonia.
他们的胚胎保存在美国的实验室，而供检测的细胞被空运到牛津进行分析。
Their embryos stayed in the U.S. laboratory but the test cells were flown to Oxford for analysis.
宝马公司曾经表示，它正在对它的牛津市考利迷你工厂进行裁员850人并削减产量，而日产汽车在它的桑德兰工厂将裁员1 200人。
BMW has said that it was reducing its Mini workforce at Cowley, Oxford, by 850 and cutting production, while 1, 200 jobs are to be cut at Nissan's plant in Sunderland.
最佳美景街道的强力竞争者包括牛津的新学院巷、第一大道、马而岛的托巴莫利大街和巴斯的皇家新月大道。
Strong contenders for the Most Picturesque Street include New College Lane in Oxford, Main Street, Tobermory in Mull and Royal Crescent in Bath.
新牛津街，芬奇利路、苏格兰和卡姆登路便被切断了，而查尔斯·巴里正在设计特法拉加广场。
New Oxford Street had just been cut, and the Finchley road, the Caledonian and Camden roads, and Charles Barry was designing Trafalgar Square.
之后Blackwell准备在其拥有的60家书店的网络中推出这一服务，而它的牛津旗舰店将同其它小的校园书店一样成为最早的使用者。
It then hopes to roll it out across its 60-store network, with its flagship Oxford branch likely to be an early recipient as well as a host of smaller, campus-based shops.
他于1888年去世，而《牛津英语词典》称这种诗歌第一次被称为“limerick”是在1896年。
He passed away in 1888 and the Oxford English Dictionary traces the first time such poetry being called a limerick to 1896.
Affymetrix拒绝从牛津基因科技(OGT)，Southern从1995年为进行DNA微数组商业化而开的公司，获得Southern博士的专利许可。
Affymetrix refused to license Dr Southern's patents from Oxford Gene Technology (OGT), the firm he had founded in 1995 to commercialise his approach to making DNA arrays.
而另一处场景同样引起了轰动。他的妻子带着她2年前见过的北伦敦中学的孩子们参观了牛津大学。
No less memorably, his wife took the pupils from a north London secondary school whom she first met two years ago around an Oxford college.
不过工具也能起到了双刃剑的作用，哈佛的拉克希米·伊勒(LakshmiIyer)便利用了工具的这类作用技术的揭示了一些在大英帝国殖民统治下的不愉快后果，辛格的牛津听众们可能会因这些后果而骚动。
But instruments can cut both ways. Lakshmi Iyer of Harvard has used the technique to reveal some unhappy consequences of the Raj that might have made Mr Singh's Oxford audience squirm.
在本周牛津大学的演讲中，朱博士建议我们将市镇的屋顶以及路面都漆成白色，因为这将有助于地球反射而不是像以前那样保留太阳的热量。
Speaking at Cambridge University this week, Dr Chu suggested we paint the roofs and pavements of our towns and cities white, as it will help the planet reflect, rather than retain, heat from the sun.
牛津的老师们重视那些具有“绅士特征”如学术名著或哲学，而不是带有“实用特征”味道的课程。
The dons valued “gentlemanly” subjects such as classics or philosophy over anything that smacked of “utility”.
新牛津美语词典与韦氏大词典给出的解释都是撒旦或恶魔（Devil），而OED则写道，Lucifer这个词被“误用为”恶魔之意。
While the New Oxford American Dictionary or Merriam Webster says Satan or the Devil, the OED says that Lucifer is a word misused to mean devil.
牛津大学出版社29日称，预计2037年编纂完成的《牛津英语词典》第三版或将不再推出印刷版，而只以电子版面世。
The 3rd edition of the Oxford English Dictionary may never appear in print, and will probably only exist online when it is completed by 2037, announced by the Oxford University Press Sunday.
近期，牛津大学物理学家VlatkoVedral审慎地论证了认为信息是组成宇宙的最基本单位，而宇宙本身就是个巨大的量子计算器的理论。
Now Vlatko Vedral, an Oxford physicist, examines the claim that bits of information are the universe's basic units, and the universe as a whole is a giant quantum computer.
特蕾莎·梅和菲利普·梅在1978年已经是牛津大学里的热恋情侣。照片中的他们在一场辩论会社团会议上相邻而坐。
Sitting next to each other at a debating society meeting in 1978, Oxford students Theresa Brasier and Philip May were already university sweethearts.
1898年，具有这层意思的单词queen首次出现在书面引用。而《牛津英语词典》考虑得十分周到，把这个意思归到了名词queen的下面，而且是在具有幸运意味的第十三条里。
The first citation for that was back in 1898 and the OED has thoughtfully assigned this meaning as the lucky 13th in its listings under queen, noun.
当然，牛津大学不仅以其一流的教育水平而举世闻名，其精美的建筑也同样享有盛誉。
Oxford is, of course, famous for its first class education as well as its beautiful buildings.
坐平底船沿泰晤士河撑篙而下，结束你在牛津的一天。
位于伦敦西北的牛津大学以其学术成就而闻明遐迩。
Located to the northwest of London, Oxford University is noted far and wide for its academic excellence.
“因为我们每年都会因为有新的毒株出现而开发新的流感疫苗”，牛津大学生物化学系chris Scanlan博士说道，他领导了这项研究。
'We're used to flu vaccines being reformulated every year because new strains come along,' said Dr Chris Scanlan of the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Oxford, who led the research.
而新的图书馆将成为牛津大学图书馆服务的主体设施之一。
The new Library will be one of Oxford University Library Service's major facilities.
而新的图书馆将成为牛津大学图书馆服务的主体设施之一。
The new Library will be one of Oxford University Library Service's major facilities.
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