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Catttt Posted 10 years ago
Vocabulary
to calibrate our path
Does the following sentence mean "the paths we choose in the city allow us to determine the quality of that area of the city"?
Context:
‘ways of calibrating our path through the city’, as he says, which, by extension, permit us to ‘gauge the calibre of a place’
Context:
‘ways of calibrating our path through the city’, as he says, which, by extension, permit us to ‘gauge the calibre of a place’
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Hi That's quite a difficult quote. I was in Kings Cross a couple of days ago. In the last few years it has been developed and commercialised.
- Hi That's quite a difficult quote.
- I was in Kings Cross a couple of days ago.
- In the last few years it has been developed and commercialised.
- It's a part of the city where people, maybe, no longer feel they can judge what is happening there.
- 'To calibrate' is to measure, so I think Wentworth is saying that if we take the time to walk slowly around the district, we can start to get the measure of it.
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That's quite a difficult quote. I was in Kings Cross a couple of days ago. In the last few years it has been developed and commercialised. It's a part of the city where people, maybe, no longer feel they can judge what is happening there. 'To calibrate' is to measure, so I think Wentworth is saying that if we take the time to walk slowly around the district, we can start to get the
That's quite a difficult quote. I was in Kings Cross a couple of days ago. In the last few years it has been developed and commercialised. It's a part of the city where people, maybe, no longer feel they can judge what is happening there. 'To calibrate' is to measure, so I think Wentworth is saying that if we take the time to walk slowly around the district, we can start to get the
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red appleDoes the following sentence meanThis is not a full sentence; all you have is an extended noun phrase headed by "ways".
The part in single quotes, plus "permit us", does form a sentence, however, and I suppose that is what you're interested in, and it's this:
Ways of calibrating (adjusting for accuracy) our path through the
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