| 单词 | public-school–oxford | 
| 释义 | > as lemmaspublic-school–Oxford    public school-bred,  public school-educated,  public-school–Oxford, etc., adjs. ΚΠ a1867    M. Faraday in  H. Barnard True Student Life 		(1873)	 456  				The sciences, of which I notice a great and general ignorance even among our best public school educated men. 1914    Ann. Amer. Acad. Polit. & Social Sci. 51 163  				Put a public-school-educated, healthy family into a filthy house, and it will be a different dwelling by the morning. 1940    Times 6 Feb. 2/6 		(advt.)	  				Help, will cook for one or handle lighter house duties; public school educated. 1943    M. Schlauch Gift of Tongues 264  				English writers themselves have sometimes jeered at certain details of ‘public school-Oxford’ speech as being affected. 1952    A. Koestler Arrow in Blue xxviii. 263  				Public School-bred Foreign Office diplomats like Guy Burgess and Donald MacLean. 1971    A. H. Halsey  & M. A. Trow Brit. Academics xv. 421  				41 per cent of the public school educated teachers place themselves on the Left. 1996    Daily Tel. 31 Dec. 16/6  				The song of Harmodios and Aristogeiton, two public school-type chaps who tried to assassinate the Peisistratid tyrants, became a kind of Athenian national anthem. 2005    Slate Mag. 		(Nexis)	 18 Nov.  				All form and sterling elocution, he is every inch the English public-school-bred bogeyman. < as lemmas | 
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