Making a tribute to nature
Central Park is the most popular attractions in New York City. About 130 years ago Frederic Law Olmsted and his collaborator Calvert Vaux submitted their landscaping plan for a rectangular parcel two miles north of the town’s center. The barren swampy tract, home for squatters and a boneboiling works that made glue, was reported as 'a pestilential spot where miasmic odors taint every breath of air "It took 16 years for workers with pickaxes and shovels to move 5 million cubic feet of earth and rock, and to plant half a million trees and shrubs, making a tribute to nature - a romantic nineteenth-century perception of nature.
A. I would like to know the meaning of "1".
1. making a tribute to nature - a romantic nineteenth-century perception of nature.
B. I wonder if "making" means "a", "b" or anything.
a. in making
b. thus making
C. I wonder why "-" between "nature" and "a romantic" is used.
Top answer
"making a tribute to nature" describes the result of the work, so "thus" is not far wrong in meaning, but literally inserting "thus" probably makes more of a meal of it than is necessary. "a romantic nineteenth-century perception of nature" is set off with a dash because it is a restatement or elaboration of "nature". The character in your post is actually a hyphen.
- "making a tribute to nature" describes the result of the work, so "thus" is not far wrong in meaning, but literally inserting "thus" probably makes more of a meal of it than is necessary.
- "a romantic nineteenth-century perception of nature" is set off with a dash because it is a restatement or elaboration of "nature".
- The character in your post is actually a hyphen.
- This is incorrect: it should be a dash.
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"making a tribute to nature" describes the result of the work, so "thus" is not far wrong in meaning, but literally inserting "thus" probably makes more of a meal of it than is necessary.
"a romantic nineteenth-century perception of nature" is set off with a dash because it is a restatement or elaboration of "nature". The character in your post is actually a hyphen. This is incorrect: it
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