中国学生用现金收买英国导师被判刑

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BBC Chinese, Apr 24, 2013
http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/si ... udent_bribery.shtml

, which is translated from

University of Bath student jailed over tutor bribe bid. BBC, Apr 23, 2013.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-22269573

Note:
(a) University of Bath
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Bath
(in City of Bath of the ceremonial county of Somerset; public; Established 1966; According to The Sunday Times University Guide, Bath is ranked as the 3rd best University in the United Kingdom behind only Cambridge and Oxford)
(b) Mr LI Yang was sentenced at Bristol Crown Court.
(i) Bristol
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristol
(a city and ceremonial county; The town of Brycgstow (Old English, "the place at the bridge") appears to have been founded in c 1000)

Compare
(A) Cambridge
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge
("After the Romans had left Saxons took over the land on and around Castle Hill and renamed it Grantabrycge – 'Bridge over the river Granta'. Over time the name evolved to become Cambridge, while the river Granta became known as the river Cam to match the name of the city")
(B) The English surname Stow is variant of Stowe.
(C) The English surname Stowe is "from Old English stow, a word akin to stoc (see Stoke), with the specialized meaning ‘meeting place,' frequently referring to a holy place or church. * * * The final -e in part represents a trace of the Old English dative inflection."

* dative (adj):
"of, relating to, or being the grammatical case that marks typically the indirect object of a verb, the object of some prepositions, or a possessor"
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dative
* dative case
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dative

(D) The English surname Stoke "seems to have meant originally merely ‘place,' and to have been used mainly for an outlying hamlet or dependent settlement."
Dictionary of American Family Names, by Oxford University Press.
(E) Crown Court
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_Court
("established in 1972 by the Courts Act 1971 to replace the courts of Assize and Quarter Sessions")

(b) The report mentions "Prof Andrew Graves."

The English surname Graves means son of Grave. The latter is "an Occupational name from Middle English greyve ‘steward’, from Old Norse greifi or Low German greve (see Graf)."
(c) The report talks about an air pistol loaded with six pellets.

air gun
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_gun
(d) Li's lawyer is Mr Blake James.

The English surname Blake is "variant of Black , meaning ‘swarthy’ or ‘dark-haired,' from a byform of the Old English adjective blæc, blac ‘black.'"

* byform (n):
"a parallel and sometimes less important form of a word, stem, or formative element in a given language or dialect"

(e) Li's lawyer states in court that "his client was concerned he would not be able to move from his expiring student visa to a Tier 1 visa."ithout passing his course.

For Tier 1 visa, see points-based immigration system (United Kingdom)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Points-based_immigration_system_(United_Kingdom)
(phased in between 2008 and 2010; composed of five "tiers")