根据文章第一段"The flower,for which the plant is particularly famed,hangs downwards,with six narrow,greenish-yellow petals (花瓣).(这种植物特别出名的花向下垂着,有六个狭长的黄绿色花瓣。)"可知,依兰依兰最出名的是它的花朵。故选B。(2)C.细节理解题。根据文章第二段"In the Tagalog language,native...
In the Tagalog language, native to the are a where the ylang-ylang tree is found, the word "ilang" means wilderness.Tagalog is an Austronesian language spoken as a first language by the Tagalog people, who make up a quarter of the population of the Philippines, and as a second language ...
Literally translated, “to move hot food around in your mouth,” this is the experience of biting into something only to discover that it’s approximately 1,000 degrees. As the skin in your mouth melts, you let out a loud scream, drop the food, and curse the day you were born. Okay,...
“The truth should not be summarily executed,” Marcos said in Tagalog, using a term associated with Rodrigo Duterte’s drug killings. ___ RODRIGO DUTERTE One of Asia’s most unorthodox contemporary leaders until his six-year term ended in 2022, Duterte, 79...
Malay belongs to the Austronesian family, meaning it shares similarities with Indonesian, Tagalog, and even Malagasy (spoken in Madagascar). If you’ve studied one, you might find it easier to pick up another! Mandarin, Cantonese, Hokkien, and Teochew are part of the Sino-Tibetan family, mean...
Nurses were evacuating the building at a sprint, pushing patients in hospital beds and wheelchairs down two long blocks to the parking lot of a 7-Eleven. The wind snatched at blankets and face masks. Embers whipped through the air. People yelled in Tagalog, English, Spanish and Armenian over...
One day after she freezes up in class (due to John coming into class with a note) and is outside crying. John cheers her up. Years pass and she thinks of him still. She opens the paper to find he died and goes to the wake and falls apart, but she realizes its John's father, ...
Tagalog:dasto(tl) very small amount Dutch:sporen(nl)npl Finnish:hiven,jäämä Maori:kanehe,ngarengare (electronics) electric current-carrying conductive pathway Arabic:لِوْحَة دَارَاتُ مَطَبُوعَة(lawḥat dārāt ma...
Do you feel like you two were meant to be or made for each other? In Chinese, this word refers to a relationship designed by fate or destiny. Kilig (Tagalog) This word describes that blush-producing, giddy rush you feel right after something good happens to you, such as accidentally b...
July 21– Alarmed at the proliferation of misinformation pertaining to local slang, I culled the useful terms from the published screenplay of Ishmael Bernal’sManila by Night(1980) and uploaded the informationas its own post. I also stumbled on a scanned upload of the rareTagalog Slang Dictiona...