Dan is a graduate of Amherst College and Phillips Exeter Academy, where he spent time as an English teacher before turning his efforts fully to writing.
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她很高兴地称呼这种「热忱」,似乎起源于牛津大学的圣希尔达学院(St Hilda’s in Oxford),当时她觉得英文课很无聊,Dorothy Whitelock鼓励她去检索地名看看。
This “obsession”, as she happily called it, seemed to have begun at St Hilda’s in Oxford, where she found her English course boring, but was encouraged by Dorothy Whitelock to look at place names.
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学校高高的砖墙将之与苏丹日常生活几乎隔绝,有专车接送出入隐蔽的牛津剑桥学院或者英文私立学校。
Its high brick walls shut out the dust of everyday Sudanese life, transporting the visitor into the shady courtyard of an Oxbridge college or English private school.