Trước mắt, từ điển nhỏ được bố trí theo chương học, bao gồm từ vựng được coi là mới đối với đối tượng chương trình. Từ điển cung cấp (i) cách phát âm; (ii) Nghĩa của từ được sử dụng trong ngữ cảnh cụ thể trong văn bản và ngôn bản thuộc chương học liên quan; có kèm theo nghĩa tiếng Việt; (iii) Ví dụ minh họa nghĩa đã nêu. | LESSON TWENTY-FOUR 187 o clock the entrances to St. Giles are closed to traffic. I looked out and there waiting to rash in was a stream of carts cars wagons roundabouts swings coconut-stalls strong men and s all the fun of the fair . It s all very noisy and jolly and you d probably think it was rather silly but it s great fun while it lasts. It s all these contrasts in Oxford that make the place so fascinating. Oxford doesn t live only in the past you feel there is a sense of continuity all through its history. To go from Magdalen Bridge where the lovely Tower stands like a guardian of the city through Radcliffe Square the heart of the University past the great Bodleian Library to which a copy of every book published in Great Britain has to be sent and on to the fine new science buildings of the 188 ESSENTIAL ENGLISH Clarendon Laboratories is to pass through streets where the Middle Ages the 18th century and the modem world rub shoulders. Here men have expressed in stone the finest culture of their periods. Norman Gothic Renaissance Classic Modern are all there in friendly rivalry each beautiful thing adding something to the contrasting beautiful thing that is its neighbour. I felt very strongly this mingling of old and new when we visited New College which in spite of its name is one of the oldest Here against a background of Gothic stonework is the gigantic statue of Lazarus carved by Epstein only a few years ago. And in New College I saw one of the most moving things I have seen in Oxford moving because it seemed to me to express so well the noble generous spirit of Oxford. It was a war-memorial that said In memory of the men of this College who coming from a foreign land entered into the inheritance of this place and returning fought and died for their country in the war 1914-1919. Prinz Wolrad-Friedrich ZU Waldeck-Pyrmont Freiherr Wilhelm von Sell Erwin Beit von Speyer. The men to whom that memorial was raised were Germans who had fought against .
