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36 Hours in Oxford, England By SETH KUGEL?July 14, 2012 36小时玩转 36小时玩转牛津 OXFORD is not a college town — it is?the?college town. Its namesake university’s 38 colleges are so steeped in scholarly history they make Harvard and Yale seem like baby-faced freshmen. To wit: Oxford’s New College was last considered “new” in the 14th century. Even the obsolete term “New World” is newer. Students here get into the act, many dressing in tweed coats, sometimes even with elbow patches, and ordering pints of cask ale at pubs that have been in business for nearly four-fifths of a millennium. But Oxford has a modern side, too: night spots blare house and electronic music; restaurants serve modern takes on local food and exotic ethnic cuisine; and comfortable boutique hotels and bed-and- breakfasts beat medieval lodging houses for comfort any day. Just don’t ask for a place to hitch your horse. 牛津不只是一座大学城——它是“那座”大学城。令它得名的大学拥有38所学院，其学术历史是如此厚重，以至于哈佛与耶鲁大学与之相比，简直就像是长着娃娃脸的新生。就拿牛津的新学院（New College）来说吧，上一次人们认为它太“新”，那是14世纪时的事情（就连“新世界”这种已经过时的说法都更加新鲜）。在这里的学生也乐于追随学校的传统，不少人穿着粗花呢大衣，有时还是手肘上带补丁的款式，泡吧时点上几品脱桶装啤酒，这种啤酒已经有近800年历史了。同时牛津也是个现代的小城：夜店里播放的是House风格的电子乐；餐馆里提供用现代做法烹饪的当地菜式和各种外国风味饮食；而舒适的精品酒店和提供床位与早餐的中世纪民宿，可以随时为游客提供宾至如归的服务（不过你可别让店家找个地方拴马）。 Friday 星期五 3 p.m.1. WONDERLAND? HOGWARTS? 下午3点：仙境？霍格沃兹？ Andrew Testa for The New York Times 基督教会学院里的守门人。 It’s hard to admire Christ Church college for what it really is — the hallowed halls of learning where Sir Christopher Wren, John Locke, William Penn and 13 British prime ministers were educated. That’s because it’s the place that stood in for the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in several “Harry Potter” movies. And the place where the math tutor Charles Dodgson concocted the story he would publish under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll as “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.” Following the tourist route through courtyards, gardens and halls costs ￡8, or $12.30 at $1.54 to the pound www.chch.ox.ac.uk/visiting , but it’s worth it, if for nothing else