Polo
['pəʊləʊ] or ['polo]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a game similar to field hockey but played on horseback using long-handled mallets and a wooden ball.
(noun.) Venetian traveler who explored Asia in the 13th century and served Kublai Khan (1254-1324).
埃德娜校對--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A game of ball of Eastern origin, resembling hockey, with the players on horseback.
(n.) A similar game played on the ice, or on a prepared floor, by players wearing skates.
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解釋/意思:
n. an equestrian game which may be shortly described as hockey on horseback—of Oriental origin and high antiquity.
n. a Spanish gipsy dance.
手打:默文
例句/造句/用法:
- These travels of Marco Polo were only the beginning of a very considerable intercourse. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Pekin Polo calls Cambulac; Northern China, Cathay (= Khitan); and Southern China of the former Sung dynasty, Manzi. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- It begins by telling of the journey of Marco's father, Nicolo Polo, and uncle, Maffeo Polo, to China. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Nay, there is doubtless much truth in those extravagant travels of Marco Polo, Sir John Mandeville, and such-like wanderers. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- The popular imagination has always been disposed to ascribe every such striking result to Marco Polo. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Chinese records mention a certain Polo attached to the imperial council in 1277, a very valuable confirmation of the general truth of the Polo story. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- There were many mute Marco Polos who never met their Rusticianos, and history has not preserved their names. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The three Polos started by way of Palestine and not by the Crimea, as in the previous expedition. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The Polos had taken about three and a half years to get to China. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The Polos then went by Tabriz to Trebizond, sailed to Constantinople, and got back to Venice about 1295. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
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