n AmE [Date: 1800-1900; Origin: Oxford, English city and university] oxfords [plural] a type of leather shoes that fasten with shoelaces [C] a type of shirt made of thick cotton
1. This book is published by Oxford University Press. 这本书是牛津大学出版社出版的.
2. One of these was the Bishop of Oxford, who took part in a debate against T. H. Huxley, a well- known scientist. 其中的一个人就是牛津教区的主教, 他参加了与著名科学家T.H.赫胥黎的辩论.
3. Oxford has been ruined by the motor industry. 牛津城已经被汽车工业破坏了.
4. Our leaders saw parallels to the independence movement founded by people like Nehru and Gandhi who, after absorbing Western political thought at institutions like Eton and Oxford, returned home to serve their native land. 我们的领导人看到了与诸如尼赫鲁和甘地这样的人所发起的独立运动类似的情况:他们在伊顿和牛津这样的学府里吸收了西方的政治思想后,就回来报效自己的祖国。