新概念第一册39课课文

新概念第一册39课课文
39 Lesson Thirty-nine
The best way to describe Oxford is to say that it is a city of colleges. There is no 'campus' in Oxford, no park, save only that 'green quadrangle' that each college possesses, surrounded by its buildings. There are no 'dormitories'. Students have sets of rooms in their college, and these they can use as private sitting-rooms. For here the college is a home, not only a place of study.
There are thirty-three colleges in Oxford, and Pembroke College is the third oldest. One side of the quadrangle is taken up by the old chapel of 1624. On the opposite side is the library. For Pembroke has a library second only in importance to that of the University itself. It is rich in Elizabethan literature and possesses many other rare books. The college also possesses a dining-hall, a kitchen, and a beautiful garden. It has a small lake on one side, and one of the loveliest gardens in Oxford lies on the other.
Many of the colleges are very small. Keble College was founded a hundred years ago, and it has thirty-two undergraduates. Bath College is a ladies' college, which is completely unconnected with the rest of Bath except that it uses some of the city's buildings.。