red brick university

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red brick universities 复数 red brick universities

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redbrick redbrick university

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Any traditional British university other than Oxford or Cambridge, especially one founded in the Victorian age in a large city.

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词源

From the memoir Redbrick University by Edgar Allison Peers, whose titular university is based on the University of Liverpool. Liverpool, like most urban universities of the late-19th and early-20th centuries, extensively uses red clay bricks in its architecture.

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