牛津校園生活情景對話：新學院
英語情景對話作爲真實生活的交際模式,作爲語言輸出的源頭,作爲語言練習的最佳途徑,作爲語言教授的媒介,它對於把英語作爲外語來學習的學生,扮演着非常重要的角色。下面本站小編爲大家帶來牛津校園生活英語情景對話，歡迎大家學習!
牛津校園生活情景對話：新學院
T： Hi, Carl. How are you? I haven’t seen you for a long time.
T:喂，卡爾。你好嗎?好久不見了。
C: Hello, Toni. I’m fine. What about you?
C:你好，託尼。我很好。你呢?
T: Actually, I’m so tired. I’ve just finished my trip to Oxford.
T：說實話，我很疲意。我剛剛結束我的牛津之行。
C: Do you mean the University of Oxford? I’ve been meaning to go out there for a while.
C:你指的是牛津大學嗎?很久以前我就想去那兒了。
T: Yeah! I visited almost all the Oxford colleges，such as Balliol College, Christ Church College, Merton College, New College，All Souls College, and so on. However, I regarded New College as the most beautiful institute of the University of Oxford.
T:是的。我幾乎參觀了牛津大學所有的學院，如：貝利奧爾學院、基督敎堂學院、 默頓學院、新學院和衆靈學院等等。但是，我認爲新學院是牛津大學最美的 學院。
C: Really? Why do you think so?
C:是嗎?你爲什麼這麼認爲呢?
T: Well, the design of the buildings of New College is grandiose and novel. Moreover, it is the first college to design the whole buildings as an integer. The quadrangle can be remarked as the template of college construction. Taking it as an example, quite a lot of colleges were built, like famous Winchester College.
T：新學院的建築設計旣大方又新穎，而且是所有學院中頭一個把建築設計爲一 個整體的。這個正方形的建築羣堪稱一座學院建築範本。好多學院都是以它 爲範本建造的，比如著名的溫徹斯特大學。
C: Right. I also know that New College and Winchester College have striking architectural similarities for both were the work of master mason William Wynford.
C:對極了。我還知道新學院和溫徹斯特學院在建築風格上驚人的相似，因爲它 們都是石匠大師威廉_溫福德的傑作。
T: William Wynford? You have reminded me of the New College motto “Manners Makyth Man”. It was created by William of Wykeham, the originator of New College and an excellent master mason.
T：威廉溫福德?你讓我想起了新學院的格言‘‘風度造就人才”。它是由學院的 創始人威廉?威克姆提出的，他也是一位出色的石匠。
C: An interesting motto! What does it mean? I suppose it might be suggesting that it is beneficial to have good manners.
C:有趣的格言1它是什麼意思呢?我想它是在暗示，擁有好的禮貌和習慣是有益 處的。
T: In fact, you don’t really capture its full scope. What it really means is that it is not by birth, money, or property that an individual is defined, but by how he (or she) behaves towards other people.
T:事實上，你並設有真正領悟到它的內涵。它真正的意思是，決定一個人最主 要的因素不是出身貴賤和有多少財富，而是他如何待人接物。
C: Oh, I see. The motto is extremely awesome，moreover very philosophic.
C:哦，明白了。這句格言非常經典，也很有哲理啊!
T: What’s more, the motto is in many respects fairly revolutionary. It was written in English, rather than Latin, which makes it very unusual in Oxford. As I know, even St. Catherine’s College, founded in 1965，has a Latin motto.
T:更不可思議的是，這個格言在很多方面來說都是相當別具一格的。它是用 英語寫的，而不是拉丁語，這使得它在牛津顯得格格不入。據我所知，就連1965年創建的聖凱瑟琳學院的格言也是用拉丁文寫的。
C： Well, it is really a peculiar motto. Does anything else attract you?
C:嗯，這確實是個獨特的格言。新學院還有什麼令人着迷的地方嗎?
T: Rowing! You know I like it very much. New College is the only Oxford or Cambridge College to have won an Olympic Medal. The New College Club represented Britain at the Summer Olympics in Stockholm, Sweden in 1912 and obtained a silver medal in rowing.
T：賽艇!你知道我非常喜歡這項運動。新學院是牛津大學和劍橋大學的所有學 院中唯一贏得奧運獎牌的學院。1912年，新學院俱樂部代表英國參加在瑞典 首都斯德哥爾摩舉行的夏季奧運會，幷在賽艇比賽中榮獲銀牌。
C： Marvelous! The college is the pride of Oxford.
C:真了不起!它算得上是牛津的驕傲了。
T: Of course! The Boat Club adds to the College’s reputation.
T:當然啦!划船俱樂部爲學院增加了不少名氣。
C: New College has already been well-known in the world. It plays an active part in popular culture. New College was used as a filming location for the 1991 Inspector Morse, the 1997 film Tomorrow Never Dies and the 2005 film Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. I know the College through watching these films.
C:新學院已經是舉世闖名了。它在大衆文化中起着積極的作用。新學院曾被用 做很多部電影的拍攝基地，如：1991年的《摩斯偵探》，1997年的《明日帝國》 以及2005年的(哈利?波特與火焰杯》。我就是通過看這些電影才知道新學院 的。
T: What a shame! I have watched merely Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, in which New College Cloisters served as the Hogwarts background for some scenes.
T:真遺憾!我僅僅看過《哈利?波特與火焰杯》。在電影裏，新學院迴廊在一些 場景中被用做霍格沃茲的背景。
C： Oh, it’s time for class. There is no point to being late, right?
C:噢，上課時間到了。我們上課可不能遲到，對吧?
T: Yeah, that’s right. Let’s continue after class.
T:是的，沒錯。下課後我們接着聊。
C： Ok! See you later.
C:好的! 一會兒見。
相關閱讀：新學院簡介
牛津大學新學院是牛津大學中歷史最悠久的學院之一，擁有約620年的歷史，是由溫徹斯特大主教、溫莎城堡的建造者威廉·威克姆(William of Wykeham)所建，最初是爲了建造一所高等學府，以培養更多的教士，來補足因黑死病流行而大量缺乏的教會人員。新學院是牛津大學中規模最大、資金最充沛的學院之一，位於牛津鎮中部，也時常被譽爲擁有了最漂亮的建築羣，是第一個採用方庭院建築設計的學院，成爲之後牛津多所學院模仿的對象。
