Meaning of I-lan | Babel Free

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Noun. [B1]

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“Although Taiwan has the advantages of abundant rains and a long growing season, which make⟳ it possible in much of the cultivated area to grow⟳ two and even three crops a year on the same plot, there are handicaps. Surface configuration and poor soils have⟳ limited the arable area to the western plains, the T'ai-tung Valley, and the I-lan Plain-or only some 24 per cent of the land⟳ surface in all.”

“Moreover, the anatomical and biophysical studies described in this paper have⟳ not only indicated the snail first described as "Tricula" to be a subspecies of Oncomelania hupensis, but to be most closely related to O. h. formosana, and, in particular, to a population of that subspecies from I-lan county, also located in the northern tip⟳ of Taiwan.”

“Elsewhere, on the east coast an auxiliary force⟳ composed of Ōsaka Fourth Division reserves staged landings in the I-lan district on June 21, and in only two days' time had peacefully entered the main towns of Lo-tung and I-lan in that area.”

“I was told that the security agencies had determined that in the event of a public disturbance of any kind, three men would be destroyed at once. They were Henry Kao, the present⟳ mayor of Taipei, Kuo Yu-shin, an outspoken non-K.M.T. member of the Provincial Assembly elected by a solid constituency in I-lan, and me. The three of us were referred to in security documents by a coded sign⟳, three concentric circles.”

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