牛津校園生活情景對話：歷史最悠久的大學

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!

S: Hi，Vivian, how are you?

S:喂，維維安，你好嗎?

V: Fine, thanks! Sam, how about your holiday?

V:很好，謝謝!薩姆，你假期過得怎麼樣?

S: It’s wonderful! I had a trip to Britain with my attracted by the University of Oxford.

S:棒極了!我和爸爸媽媽去英國旅遊了。說實話，我真是被牛津大學深深地吸 引了。

V: Really? I’ve been meaning to go out there for many years, since I knew that Oxford was the earliest university in the English-speaking World.

V：真的嗎?自從我知道牛津大學是英語世界歷史最悠久的大學後，我就一直想 去那裏。

S: Absolutely, it is a place worthy to visit. You can see majestic and splendid old buildings everywhere. However, I was moved by its tough and tensile spirit, even at the time of great tribulation, rather than its buildings.

S:牛津大學絕對是值得一去的地方，到處都是宏偉壯觀的古建築。但是，牛津 最吸引我的並不是它的建築，而是一種在苦難中依然頑強挺立的百折不撓的 精神。

V: I'm confused. What makes you say that?

V:我很困惑。你爲什麼那麼說呢?

S: Well, the history of the University was extremely tortuous. There are conflicts between townspeople and university students at the very beginning of its foundation. It almost came to an end for several times. I remembered that teaching had suspended for two times, one was in 1209 and the other in 1355.

S：牛津大學的歷史是非常曲折的。牛津城的市民和大學的學生們自牛津建校以 來就衝突不斷，有幾次學校差點就倒閉了。我記得學校曾經兩次停課，一次 是在1209年，還有一次是在1355年。

V: Oh, I have heard about the riot happened on the St. Scholastica Day in 1355. It can be considered as the most notorious② event in the history of Oxford.

V:噢，我曾經聽說過發生在1355年修士節那天的暴亂。它可以說是牛津歷史上 最不堪回首的事件了。

S: Maybe! However, the Oxford Movement broke up in 1833 also had an immense impact on the development of the University. It was a religious movement arguing for the recovery of traditional aspects of the Christian faith.

S:也許吧!但是，1833年爆發的牛津運動也對牛津大學的發展產生了巨大的影 響。它是一場要求重振英國國教的宗教運動。

V; Luckily, the University of Oxford grew up eventually to the world’s leading academic institute. By the way, what’s the concrete date of its foundation? Someone said that it was built up for more than 800 years, while someone stated for some 900 years.

V:幸運的是，牛津大學還是不斷成長，最後發展成爲了世界級的頂尖學府。順 便問一句，牛津大學具體是什麼時候建成的?有人說它有800多年的歷史， 又有人說有900多年。

S: Actually，the University doesn't have a clear date of foundation. However, teaching existed there in some forms as far back as 1096. Although both All Souls College and University College have repeated claimed that they own documents, which provide that teaching in Oxford started in the year 825, it was not accepted by the public.

S:事實上，這所大學並沒有確切的建校日期。但是，早在1096年教學就以某 些形式在牛津存在了。雖然衆靈學院和大學學院都不斷聲稱他們有證據表明 教學活動早在825年前就存在於牛津大學了，但是這並設有被公衆所接受。

V: Oh，I see. Have you ever visited the oldest museum in the UK? I caught sight of it in a book, and it seems to be called the Ashmolean Museum.

V:哦，我明白了。那你見到英國最古老的博物館了嗎?我曾經在一本書中看到過， 好像叫阿什莫爾博物館。

S: Yes, I have! Its full name is Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, which is on Beaumont Street. It is also the world’s first university museum, whose first building was built between 1678 and 1683.

S:是的，我見過!它的全名叫阿什莫爾藝術和考古學博物館，在博蒙特街上。它 也是全世界第一個大學博物館，該博物館最古老的建築建於1678-1683年間。

V： Great! Did you see the Alfred Jewel, the one stolen in the British television series Inspector Morsel

V:真棒!那你看到阿弗列之寶了嗎?就是英國電視劇《摩斯偵探》裏面那個被 盜的珠寶。

S: Yes, I did. It is about 6 centimeters long, made of filigreed gold, enclosing a highly polished piece of quartz crystal beneath which is set a cloisonne enamel plaque. The Jewel can not be more beautiful!

S:嗯，我看到了。它大概6釐米長，是用金銀細線裝飾的純金製品，裏面鑲嵌 着一塊光潔透亮的水晶，水晶下面是一塊景泰藍的小裝飾板。漂亮極了!

V: I'm so eager to see it with my own eyes!

V:真想親眼目睹一下這個珍寶啊!

S: Well, I have taken lots of pictures, would you like to have a_ look at them?

S:我拍了很多.照片，你想不想看看?

V: Of course! I wonder if it is true that the jeweliy had been stolen.

V:當然啦!我想知道這個絕世珍寶是不是真地被盜過。

S: No. Though thieves came into the museum in 1999, it was not lost. They aimed to steal a painting.

S:設有。雖然有小愉在1999年混入了博物館，但是它並設有丟失。小愉的目 標是一liBo

V: So lucky. It’s to be regretted to lose such a precious jewelry.

V:太幸運了。這麼珍貴的東西，丟了就太可惜了。

S： Quite right. Let’s make an appointment to my home to look at those photos!

S:是啊。那我們約個時間到我家去看照片吧!

V： Well, what about tomorrow afternoon? We don’t have class then.

V:呃，那明天下午怎麼樣?明天下午我設課。

S: Ok! I’m looking forward to your coming on time! See you then!

S:好啊!期待你如約到來!到時見!

V: See you!

V:再見!

　　相關閱讀：牛津大學簡介

牛津大學(University of Oxford)，簡稱牛津(Oxford)，是一所位於英國牛津市的世界著名公立研究型大學。實際創立日期仍不清楚，但有記錄的授課歷史可追溯到1096年，爲英語世界中最古老的大學，也是世界上現存第二古老的高等教育機構，是世界著名研究型大學之一。牛津同時擁有全球最具規模的大學出版社，及全英最大型的大學圖書館系統。另外，牛津大學培養了衆多社會名人，包括了26位英國首相、60位諾貝爾獎得主以及數十位世界各國的皇室成員和政治領袖。