Marco Polo

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A renowned traveler. countable
    — Ibn Battuta has inevitably been compared with him and has usually taken second prize as "the Marco Polo of the Muslim world" or "the Marco Polo of the tropics"
  2. A hunting game—usually played in a swimming pool—where the seeker moves with closed eyes or blindfolded, finding the other players by calling "Marco" and reacting to the other players' replies of "Polo". uncountable

词形变化

Marco Polos plural marco polo alternative Marcopolo alternative marcopolo alternative

词源

After Marco Polo (1254–1324), Venetian merchant, whose travels were documented in a book that introduced Europeans to Central Asia and China. The Italian name is from Latin Marcus + Paulus.
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