Notes

① The emperor of China, Kublai Khan, liked him so much that he gave Polo a government job in China．中國當(dāng)時(shí)的皇帝忽必烈如此欣賞馬可波羅，任命其在當(dāng)時(shí)的中國政府內(nèi)任職。

so…that..．如此……以至于……。

② The Europeans didn't believe these stories at first, but as many people started to travel to East Asia, they discovered that most of the stories were true．歐洲人一開始不相信故事中所描述的事情，但是隨著很多人前往東亞旅行，他們發(fā)現(xiàn)大多數(shù)故事是真實(shí)的。

其中的“as”表示伴隨，引導(dǎo)從句。