剑桥大学校园英语情景对话34：文科牛津和理科剑桥 （mp3+中英）

A： If you are going to apply for University, which one will you choose, Cambridge or Oxford?

A:如果你要申请大学的话，剑桥大学和牛津大学你会选哪一个？

T; I think I will choose Oxford.

T:我想我会选择牛津大学。

A: Why?

A:为什么呢？

T： Because I heard that the two have their own strengths. Cambridge is good at science and has produced more scientists while Oxford is good at art and almost all the British Prime Ministers come from it.

T:因为我听说，这两所大学各有所长。剑桥的 优势在理科，那里出了很多著名的科学家而 牛津的优势在文科，大多数的英国首相都来 自牛津。

A: Is that true? I remember that Prime Minister Walpole graduated from Cambridge.

A:真的吗？我记得沃波尔首相就毕业于剑桥啊。

T: Yes, he is one of the three ministers graduated from Cambridge. The other two are Prime Ministers Baldwin and William Pitt.

T:对。他是出自剑桥的三位首相之一，其他两 位是首相鲍尔温和威廉皮特。

A: How about Oxford? Has Oxford produced any country leaders?

A:那牛津呢？牛津是不是产生了很多的国家领 袖？

T: Definitely. Twenty-five British prime ministers have attended Oxford and At least thirty other international leaders have been educated at Oxford.

T:绝对的。有25位英国首相都上过牛津，至少还有30余位世界其他国家的领导人在牛津念过书。

A: So do you want to be another prime minister in the future since you are so fond of Oxford?

A:你对牛津这么感兴趣，是不是也想将来成为一位首相呢？

T: Maybe. I’m really interested in politics.

T:也许吧。我真的对政治很感兴趣。

A： That's great! I never knew that you are an ambitious boy, Tom! Now I understand that why it was said that you can never judge a person by his or her looks0!

A:太棒了！汤姆，我从来不知道你这么有抱负呢！现在我知道，人们为什么说“人 不可貌相” 了。

T: That's for sure.

T:那是当然。

A： You've mentioned just now that Cambridge produced more scientists? Can you give me some examples?

A:你刚才说剑桥培养了很多的科学家？能举几个例子吗？

T: That's easy. Many world-famous scientists have spent part of their life in Cambridge， such as Newton, Darwin and so on.

T:这太容易了。许多世界著名的科学家都在剑桥待过，比如牛顿、达尔文等等。

A: I think Oxford produced some important scientists, too, for example, the inventor of the World Wide Web, Tim Bemers-Lee.

A:牛津也培养了很多重要的科学家，比如万维网的发明者——蒂姆伯纳斯李。

T： Yes, besides, there are Edmond Hailey, Robert Hooke and Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin. But generally speaking, Cambridge produced more Nobel winners.

T:对。此外，还有埃德蒙_哈雷、罗伯特胡克和多萝西霍奋金。不过总的来说， 剑桥出了更多的诺贝尔奖获得者。

A: The University of Cambridge has won 87 Nobel prizes as of 2010, more than any other institution according to some counts.

A:截止到2010年初，剑桥大学嬴得了 87个诺贝尔奖项，这比其他任何一个机构都 要多。

T: Yes. Former undergraduates of the university have won a grand total of 61 Nobel prizes, more diaa the undergraduates of any other university.

T:对啊。之前剑桥的本科生赢得了 61个诺贝尔奖项，比任何大学的本科生获得的 都要多。

A： They are really great.

A:他们真是太棒了。

T： In addition, designer of the world's first computing system, discoverer of Hydrogen， discoverer of the neutron, inventor of the atomic bomb, inventor of the jet engine, inventor of the camera and so on all come from Cambridge.

T:此外，世界上第一个计算机系统的设计者，氢气的发现者，中子的发现者，原子 弹的发明者，喷射发动机的发明者，照相机的发明者也都出自剑桥。

A： It seems what you said just now is true. However, I do know some acclaimed writers who have spent some time in Cambridge, for example, E. M. Forster, Virginia Woolf.

A:看来你刚才说的很有道理。不过，我还知道一些著名的作家也在剑桥待过。比如， 福斯特、伍尔夫。

T： And Christopher Marlowe, W. M. Thackeray.

T:还有克里斯托弗马洛、萨克雷等等。

A： Furthermore, at least nine of the Poet Laureates graduated from Cambridge, and it keeps producing excellent writers now.

A:至少有9位桂冠诗人都毕业于剑桥，现在仍有很多优秀作家都出身剑桥。

T： Yes. There are many actors and directors such as James Mason, Emma Thompson and Stephen Fry who have studied at Cambridge,

T:是。许多著名的演员和导演也曾经在剑桥就读，比如，詹姆士梅森、艾玛汤普森、 还有史蒂芬弗莱。

A: The University is also known for its prodigious sporting reputation and has produced many fine athletes, including more than 50 Olympic medalists.

A:剑桥在体育方面也很有名气，产生过很多优秀的运动员，其中包括50多位奥运 会的奖牌获得者。

T: Yes, 6 in 2008 alone. I can name some of those athletes, for example the legendary Chinese six-time world table tennis champion Deng Yaping, the sprinter and athletics hero Harold Abrahams.

T:对啊，仅仅在2008年就有6位获奖。我都能说出几位运动员的名字，比如蝉联 世界乒乓球赛冠军6次的传奋中国人物邓亚萍，短跑和田径运动员哈罗德亚伯 拉罕斯等等。

A: And the inventors of the modern game of Football, Winton and Thring; and also George Mallory, the famed mountaineer and the first man ever to reach the summit of Mount Everest.

A:发明现代足球运动的温顿和斯林，还有第一个登上殊峰山顶的著名的登山家乔 治马洛里。

T: Well, you haven't told me, which university do you prefer?

T:对了，你还没告诉我如果是你的话，你会选哪所大学？

A: Since we have talked about so many advantages of Cambridge, of course Iwould choose Cambridge.
 

A:你看我们刚才谈了好多剑桥的优势，我当然会选剑桥罗。