One of the Commonwealth Fellows, Francis Price (not to be confused with Maurice Pryce …) arranged a hockey match the other day between the Graduate College and Vassar, a women's college (amer.)/university (engl.) some 130 miles away.
一位来自英联邦的研究员，弗兰西斯·普莱斯（别混淆了，这不是莫瑞斯·普利斯），有一天组织了一场曲棍球赛，一方是研究生学院，另一方是130英里之外的瓦萨女子学院。
He got up a team of which only half had ever played before.
他组织了一组队伍，不过只有一半的人以前玩过。
We had a couple of practice games and went to Vassar in cars on Sunday.
星期天，我们进行了几次练习赛，并乘车前往瓦萨。
It was raining slightly when we arrived, and what was our horror when we were told the ground was not fit for play.
我们到的时候，下起了轻微的小雨，而且他们说场地不适合举行比赛，这是非常讨厌的。
However, we persuaded them to let us play a pseudo-hockey match in their gymn. at wh(ich) we defeated them 11–3.
不过我们最终说服了他们，在那个场地进行了一场不太正规的比赛，我们以11比3获胜了。
Francis is trying to arrange a return match, which will certainly take place on a field.
弗兰西斯试着安排一场复赛，到时候肯定会在正规的场地上进行。
The amateurism was deceptive, since Shaun Wylie, the topologist, and Francis Price, the physicist, both from New College, Oxford, were players of a national standard.
要说这个队伍很业余，那可就说错了，来自牛津大学新学院的拓扑学家肖恩·怀利和物理学家弗兰西斯·怀利，都是国家级的选手。
Alan was hardly in the same class (even if he was not now 'watching the daisies grow'), but enjoyed the games.
艾伦完全不是同一级别（即使他没有把注意力用在雏菊生长上，他也不行），但他也很喜欢这个游戏。
Soon they were playing three times a week amongst themselves, and sometimes against local girls' schools.
不久后，他们每周在一起玩三次比赛，并且有时候到本地的女子学院去。
The effete English playing a women's game might well have amazed the native Princeton students, but within the establishment there was a somewhat embarrassing anglophilia, in that all the most stuffy and mannered aspects of the English system were admired.
柔弱的英国人，玩着一个女性游戏，这也许会使普林斯顿的学生吃惊，但是在领导层中，存在着一点令人尴尬的英国崇拜，英国体制中很多迂腐的方面也会受到赞赏。