一塊石頭長什么樣阎曹？牛津公布面試樣題
How you listen to music, what a rock looks like, and what historians cannot know about the past are among this year’s list of sample interview questions published by Oxford University.
你如何聽音樂习寸？一塊石頭長什么樣贾节？有哪些過去的事情歷史學(xué)家是無法知道的该押？牛津大學(xué)今年公布的面試樣題清單中筒主，這三個(gè)問題都在其列撕捍。
The annual release of interview questions and suggested ways of answering them are designed to prepare aspiring students for the ordeal of trying to get into one of the world’s most elite institutions.
aspire v.渴望;有志于
ordeal n.煎熬迈嘹，磨難
每年公布面試題以及供參考的答題思路削彬，這一舉措是為了幫助考生們度過備考難關(guān)，進(jìn)入牛津這間世界頂尖的學(xué)府秀仲。
Oxford’s director of admissions, Samina Khan, advises candidates not to be afraid to give plain answers at first. She said: “It is often best to start responding by making very obvious observationsand building up discussion from there—solving the problem quickly is less important than showing how you use information and analysis to get there.”
observation n.言論融痛；評(píng)論
build up 建立，發(fā)展
牛津大學(xué)招生部主任薩米納·汗建議考生們不要害怕在一開始給出直白坦率的回答神僵。她說：“通常最好的做法是雁刷，最開始給出一些淺顯的點(diǎn)評(píng)作為回答，然后在此基礎(chǔ)上深入討論下去——比起快速解決問題保礼，更重要的是展現(xiàn)出你是如何利用信息以及如何分析才得出你的結(jié)論的沛励。”
Sian Pooley, from Magdalen College, advised history candidates how to explain what they cannot find out about the past. “A candidate might start off by saying that they had been studying Tudor England and historians don’t know much about the lives of the poor because they were less likely to be able to write,” she said.
Tudor adj.都鐸王朝的
莫德林學(xué)院的錫安·普利為歷史系考生提供了建議炮障，想要解釋有哪些過去的事情他們沒有辦法得知目派，“考生也許可以在開場時(shí)說他們正在研究都鐸時(shí)期的英格蘭，歷史學(xué)家對窮人的生活了解不多胁赢，這是因?yàn)楦F人不太可能會(huì)寫字企蹭。”普利說道。
“Given these lower levels of literacy, we could then talk about what sources historians can use to learn about the lives of the majority of the population in 16th-century England. This would require the candidate to think creatively about alternative sources (and their drawbacks), such as, for instance, criminal court records in which people who could not write were required to give oral testimony as witnesses.
literacy n.讀寫能力
drawback n.缺點(diǎn)谅摄，不利條件
testimony n.證據(jù)徒河，證詞
“在說明了（窮人）低下的讀寫能力之后，我們接下來就能談?wù)撁荆瑲v史學(xué)家們可以使用哪些信息源了解 16 世紀(jì)英格蘭王國中大多數(shù)民眾的生活了虚青。這就需要考生打開腦洞，找出其他可選的信息源（也要考慮它們的缺陷）螺男，比如刑事法庭記錄棒厘，在這樣的記錄中，不會(huì)寫字的人被要求提供口頭證詞作為證據(jù)下隧∩萑耍”
“They might want to think about how structures of power have altered over time or about how social norms for what can be recorded and kept in archives have changed. This is the sort of conversation that no candidate could predict in advance.”
alter v.改變
norm n.準(zhǔn)則，規(guī)范
archive n.檔案檔案館
“考生們也許應(yīng)該考慮淆院，隨著時(shí)間的推移何乎，權(quán)力結(jié)構(gòu)發(fā)生了怎樣的變化；或者決定哪些信息能夠被記錄并保存在檔案中的社會(huì)規(guī)范又發(fā)生了什么變化土辩。這類談話是沒有考生能夠提前預(yù)測的支救。”
文章來源 衛(wèi)報(bào)/流利閱讀
