La Palabra Del Día "abedul"
abedul ( ah-beh-dool' )
noun ( birch, birch tree )
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1: La luz se filtró por los abedules.
The light filtered through the birches.
2: Hay muchos abedules en Minnesota.
There are many birch trees in Minnesota.
11 Answers
En otoño las hojas del abedul se vuelven amarillas antes de caer.
In autumn the leaves of the birch tree turn yellow before they fall.
El árbol de abedul tasmbién se llama 'la dama del bosque'.
El árbol de abedul no es indígena de Australia
y se ve fuera de lugar en el medio ambiente.
The birch tree is also called the lady of the forest.
The Birch tree is not indigenous to Australia
and looks out of place in the environment.
¿Sería posible que La Sociedad John Birch se llame (en español) La Sociedad Juan Abedul? (Hmmmmm, el nombre sí parece un poco árabe.
Would it be possible that the John Birch Society would be called (in Spanish) The Juan Abedul Society? Hmmmmmm, the name sounds a little Arabic.
(Disclaimer: I am not a follower of JBS, nor their teachings. But everybody else was writing about TREES and I like to be a little "out-of the box.")
Los colores fuertemente contrastantes de corteza y las hojas del árbol de abedul añaden belleza al paisaje del otoño.
The sharply contrasting colors of the birch tree's bark and leaves add beauty to autumn's landscape.
Los dibujos de Bill Watterson para su strip "Calvin y Hobbes" a menudo incluyen abedules.
Bill Watterson's drawings for "Calvin and Hobbes" often include birch trees.
Hay un gran pintor ruso Levitan , famoso por su pinturas de paisajes , donde podemos ver muchos abedules bonitos.
There is a great Russian painter Levitan, famous for his paintings of landscapes, where we can see many beautiful birches.
Creo que los abedules son muy bellos en el otoño.
I think that the birches are very beautiful in the autumn.
http://www.usu.edu/markdamen/1320hist&civ;/chapters/07ie.htm
La existencia de ciertas palabras en una protolengua, como haya y abedul, y la ausencia de otras, como océano y vid, puede dar pistas para adivinar dónde se habló.
The existence of certain words in a protolanguage, like beech and birch, and the absence of others, such as ocean and vine, can give clues for guessing where it was spoken.
El álamo temblón es similar a un árbol de abedul, pero normalmente crece a niveles de mayor altitud.
The quaking aspen is similar to a birch tree, but it typically grows at levels of higher altitude.
Abedular a alguien significa en inglés para golpearlos, posiblemente originalmente con una pequeña rama de un abedul.
To birch someone means in English to hit them, possibly originally with a small branch of a birch tree.
Giving the birch as a punishment.
Dar el abedul como un castigo.
JUVENILE BIRCHINGS IN THE 1950s
For 12 years after that, birching was principally a punishment for boys under 15 convicted of petty larceny (stealing), much as in UK magistrates' courts before 1948. The penalty was considered fairly trivial, though I doubt whether it seemed all that trivial to those receiving it (8 or 9 strokes in a few cases, though 3 or 4 was the norm). At any rate, it attracted little attention and was often reported only briefly in the local papers and not at all on the mainland. There were 52 of these magistrates' court juvenile birchings from 1952 to 1959 inclusive -- an average of nearly seven per year.
