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单词 town–gown
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town–gown
town–gown adj. designating or relating to interactions between the inhabitants of a university town and members of the university (cf. sense 9 and gown n. 5).Chiefly with reference to disagreements or conflicts.
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1914 G. M. A. Ives Hist. Penal Methods xix. 325 The old discreditable Town–Gown brawls have grown harmless as a Guy Fawkes day.
1976 Nature 15 July 164/1 A good example of town–gown friction came a few years ago when the city council passed a resolution..to pave over Harvard Yard and turn it into a parking lot.
1993 Independent (Nexis) 30 Oct. 54 Sadly these two buildings seem to symptomise the age-old town/gown divide.
2013 S. K. Kohn Pop. Protest in Late Medieval Eng. Towns iii. 74 They point to an abundance of cases of town–gown conflict.., especially at Oxford.
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