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Meaning of Ilan | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1

Definitions

A male given name from Hebrew.

Examples

“In order to survey the incidence of bovine tuberculosis among the native yellow cattle and water buffaloes, a special JCRR project was undertaken and a total of 150 water buffaloes were examined in Ilan County in 1958, and five positive reactors were found.”
“Throughout the fertile alluvial plains in Chianan, Pingtung, and Ilan, farm size averages between 2½ and 5 acres.”
“Of the county's total area of 2,137 square kilometers, mountains comprise 65 percent. Ilan is profusely endowed with natural charms and a mild climate.”
“The largest city in Ilan County, Ilan is of no special interest to most travellers other than as a transit point.”
“The port town of Suao in Ilan County is the gateway to the east coast of Taiwan.”
“Born in 1950, Chen grew up as a farmer's daughter in Sanhsing Township (三星), Ilan County.”
“Currently only in Chuangwei, Ilan is there a "Sky Mending Temple" where sacrifices are made to Nu-Wa.”
“Accumulated rain topped 623mm in Nioudou (牛鬥), Ilan County, 316mm in Wanjung (萬榮), Hualien County, and 261mm in Danong (大農), Hualien County.”
“Some rice exporters in Vietnam and India have restricted exports in order to keep more rice at home, pushing up international prices and threatening supplies to countries that depend on imports. A man worked in a rice factory in Jiaosi in Ilan County, Taiwan.”
“A man holds a handful of rice as he poses for the photographer in a rice factory in Jiaosi, Ilan County, Taiwan, April 7, 2008.”
“Searchers in Taiwan found mangled vehicle parts thought to be from a bus carrying 19 mainland Chinese tourists that disappeared when rains from Typhoon Megi caused huge mudslides on a mountainside highway, the transport minister said Saturday. Landslides caused by the typhoon also killed nine people and buried a Buddhist temple in hardest-hit Ilan County in the northeast, where a record 45 inches of rain fell in 48 hours.”
“Schools of moon jellyfish have been spotted in waters off the Nanfangao fishing port in Ilan County, northeastern Taiwan, in the past two days, with local officials attributing their presence to the reproduction of the algae on which the jellyfish feed.”
“Nearly 1,000 people marched through the town of Toucheng, in northeastern Ilan county, clutching banners and flags and chanting slogans.[…]The protest came after dozens of Taiwanese fishing boats from Ilan county last week entered territorial waters around the disputed islands to press Taipei’s claim.”
“Executive Yuan State Administrative Council member Chang Ching-sen quoted a statistic on her facebook account, listing the number of erroneous Typhoon days over the last 15 years, with Ilan in the lead at 22 days, followed by Taitung at 21, and Taichung and Hsin Pei at 19 each.”

CWB makes suggestion for typhoon day-off decision

“The search netted Peregudovs, who was caught after an off-duty police officer recognized him at an Ilan County restaurant.”
“In Taiwan, the landing point for the brand-new broadband cable will be Toucheng in Ilan County on Taiwan’s northern Pacific coast.”
“Besides political and military analysis, TaiwanPlus has produced human stories related to the crisis in Ukraine, including a story about a Taiwanese family living in Poland, which is offering sanctuary to Ukrainian refugees, and a story about Taiwan’s only Ukrainian restaurant in Ilan, run by a Ukrainian expat living there.”

European Chamber of Commerce Taiwan

““One hectare of flat land is not that big, but one hectare of forest is more burdensome as it includes mountains and rivers,” said Lai, Po-Shu, a forest ranger stationed at Taipingshan in Luodong, Ilan County, northeastern Taiwan.”

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This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

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