寻找有关Can you imagine city and country lifestyles in Britain?的英语作文

寻找有关Can you imagine city and country lifestyles in Britain?的英语作文
寻找有关Can you imagine city and country lifestyles in Britain?的英语作文

寻找有关Can you imagine city and country lifestyles in Britain?的英语作文
thinking of Christmas gifts is hard. One tends to improve, revise, embellish and add to it all the time. But here's a unique gift idea for those with a budget: The seven-day (April 4-10, '99) English Country House program in Oxford, England.
April is just right. England is always beautiful but somehow better in the early spring.
The University of Virginia sponsors the program. It checks your soul into Trinity College (founded in 1555) in Oxford on Easter Sunday. Your body will be assigned to private quarters with an attached sitting room for a stay ''up at Oxford'' where all participants will live ''in college,'' relax in its gardens and courtyards as a prelude to meals served ''in hall'' at Trinity College.
If you are one of those special people interested in the English country house, then listen to this: ''The event presents informative and descriptive lectures by faculty from Oxford and the University of Virginia who have expert knowledge of the houses and gardens to be visited. It gives an opportunity to tour Oxford, showing the growth of the city and university through the ages by tracing the development of the medieval courtyard house.''
The highlight is getting a glimpse of the British aristocracy, ''seeing its evolution from the Middle Ages to the late 19th century, and observing the political, intellectual, economic and social changes that has shaped its development.'' Also, take a look at how the aristocracy lived and how it continues to live today. Walk through their country ''houses and gardens.'' Here are some samples:
Medieval castle
Broughton Castle, a moated medieval castle, is on an island at the center of a 3-acre moat. A bridge crosses the moat leading to the castle behind an embattled gatehouse. It is the ''house'' of the Lord and Lady Saye and Sele. Their house has not changed much since it was enlarged in the 16th century. It played an important part in the English Civil War when the 8th Lord Saye and Sele clandestinely met with oppositionists at Broughton to turn the tables on Charles I's efforts to rule without Parliament.