新概念英语第四册12-01

and ...强调工业带来巨变

no benefactions and research endowments can make up for the change in character which the city has suffered. At six in the morning the old courts shake to the roar of buses taking the next shift to Cowley and Pressed Steel, great lorries with a double deck cargo of cars for export lumber past Magdalen and the University Church.

no benefactions and research endowments ...没有任何捐款和基金

in character 本质上 academic 学术的 理论的 commercialized 使商业化的

Industrial Revolution 工业革命

...has suffered 遭受巨变 can 表示语气强烈

具体例子

the old courts=classrooms/teaching area

shake to ...随着...震动而摇摇欲坠 I woke up to a large /sound noise.

taking the next shift --school bus great lorries 大卡车

great lorries with a double deck cargo of cars for export lumber past...

with 表示状态 deck 层 cargo 货物 for 表示目的 lumber :谓语 隆隆地穿越

Magdalen and the University Church

Magdalen 学院和大学里的教堂

...and no benefactions and research endowments can make up for the change in character which the city has suffered. At six in the morning the old courts shake to the roar of buses taking the next shift to Cowley and Pressed Steel, great lorries with a double deck cargo of cars for export lumber past Magdalen and the University Church....