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zhxeno

In 1903 the members of the governing board of the University of Washington. in
Seattle. engaged a firm of landscape architects, specialists in the design of outdoor
environments--OImsted Brothers of Brookline, Massachusetts-to advise them on an
appropriate layout for the university grounds.
请问这句话怎么翻译，特别是红色部分，不太理解。谢谢

zhoushao

试试:

1930年,西雅图华盛顿大学行政委员会的成员成立了一家风景设计公司,设计OImsted Brothers of Brookline, Massachusetts户外环境的的专家们在大学校园的合理布局上给他们了一些建议.

zhoushao

ＧＧ下次最好把整段贴一下，可能会更符合上下文

zhxeno

谢谢

chasetoefl

我有另一种翻译方法,大家一起讨论一下吧:

1903年西雅图华盛顿大学董事会的成员雇佣了一个由景观建筑师和室外风景设计专家组成的公司,OImsted Brothers of Brookline, Massachusetts,来指导他们大学地面的适当规划.

zhoushao

楼上的ＪＪ可以贴一下整个题吗，偶这里还没有，贴出来大家看看

chasetoefl

我刚好做过这套题,我来贴吧.

In 1903 the members of the governing board of the University of Washington. in

Seattle. engaged a firm of landscape architects, specialists in the design of outdoor

environments--OImsted Brothers of Brookline, Massachusetts-to advise them on an

Line appropriate layout for the university grounds. The plan impressed the university officials,

(5)  and in time many of its recommendations were implemented. City officials in Seattle, the

largest city in the northwestern United States, were also impressed, for they employed the

same organization to study Seattle's public park needs. John Olmsted did the investigation

and subsequent report on Seattle's parks. He and his brothers believed that parks should

be adapted to the local topography, utilize the area's trees and shrubs, and be available to

(10) the entire community. They especially emphasized the need for natural, serene settings

where hurried urban dwellers could periodically escape from the city. The essence of the

Olmsted park plan was to develop a continuous driveway, twenty miles long, that would

tie together a whole series of parks, playgrounds, and parkways. There would be local

parks and squares, too, but all of this was meant to supplement the major driveway,

(15) which was to remain the unifying factor for the entire system.

In November of 1903 the city council of Seattle adopted the Olmsted Report, and

it automatically became the master plan for the city's park system. Prior to this report,

Seattle's park development was very limited and funding meager. All this changed

after the report. Between 1907 and 1913, city voters approved special funding measures

(20) amounting to $4,000,000. With such unparalleled sums at their disposal, with the Olmsted

guidelines to follow, and with the added incentive of wanting to have the city at its best

for the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition of 1909, the Parks Board bought aggressively.

By 1913 Seattle had 25 parks amounting to 1,400 acres, as well as 400 acres in

playgrounds, pathways, boulevards, and triangles. More lands would be added in the

(25) future, but for all practical purposes it was the great land surge of 1907-1913 that

established Seattle's park system.