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oxford

/oks-ferd/US // ˈɒks fərd //UK // (ˈɒksfəd) //

牛津大学,牛津,奥克斯福德,牛津的

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : Also called Oxford shoe, Oxford tie . a low shoe laced over the instep.
    • : Also called oxford cloth . a cotton or synthetic fabric, in plain, twill, or basket weave, constructed on a pattern of two fine yarns woven as one warpwise and one loosely twisted yarn weftwise, for shirts, skirts, and summer sportswear.

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  • Scientists at Oxford’s Jenner Institute, in publishing results of their Phase 1 human clinical trial, noted that they had tested blood samples on four different types of assay, and while the results correlated, the titers varied widely.

  • Oxford stepped forward and said it would offer nonexclusive, royalty-free licenses for its vaccine, meaning multiple parties could sell it at a low cost.

  • Johnson & Johnson has said that it favors a single shot approach, but—like Sinopharm, Moderna, Pfizer, and Oxford—it will likely administer its vaccines in two doses.

  • Economists at the universities of Oxford, Zurich, and Cambridge looked into the UK furlough program, which supports one-third of the country’s workforce, accounting for more than 9 million jobs, furloughed by mid-June 2020.

  • Still, Raworth did get her economics degree — as well as a master’s in economics, also from Oxford.

  • Seventy-two adults between the ages of 18 and 50 are participating in the trial, led by the pediatrics department at Oxford.

  • His Oxford shirts and matching boxers are, needless to say, woven.

  • His next book is Government against Itself: Public Union Power and Its Consequences (Oxford) due out in January 2015.

  • But my goodness, even the air around Oxford University is studious.

  • Denton, who speaks in the clipped cadence of the Oxford-educated Brit he is, has built quite a castle.

  • A copy of Tendall's testament sold at Oxford for 20 guineas, supposed to be the only copy of that edition unburned by Tonstall.

  • The Ashmolean museum, at Oxford, England, founded for the purpose of receiving the antiquary's "twelve cartloads of rarities."

  • A student, showing the Museum at Oxford to a party, among other things produced a rusty sword.

  • Robert Harley, earl of Oxford, died; an English statesman and literary character.

  • It is but 50 miles from Bristol, and not so much as 100 miles from Oxford, and the coach passes very near this place.