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大仲马

大仲馬
Dàzhòngmǎ
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Meanings

  1. 1 Alexandre Dumas père (1802-1870), French novelist
  2. 2 Dumas the Elder

Examples

大仲马写了《三个火枪手》和《基督山伯爵》。
Dàzhòngmǎ xiě le "Sān gè huǒqiāngshǒu" hé "Jīdūshān Bójué".
Dumas père wrote The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo.
大仲马是法国十九世纪最受欢迎的作家之一。
Dàzhòngmǎ shì Fǎguó shíjiǔ shìjì zuì shòu huānyíng de zuòjiā zhī yī.
Dumas père was one of France's most popular 19th-century writers.

Tips

culture
大 ("the elder/big") distinguishes him from 小仲马 (Xiǎozhòngmǎ), Alexandre Dumas fils, his son and author of La Dame aux Camélias. Chinese uses 大/小 for père/fils across many father-son writer pairs.

In Pop Culture

三个火枪手 Sān gè huǒqiāngshǒu
The Three Musketeers
Dumas père's swashbuckling 1844 novel; the Chinese title is widely recognized.
基督山伯爵 Jīdūshān Bójué
The Count of Monte Cristo
His 1844-1846 revenge epic, a perennial bestseller in Chinese translation.

Stroke Order

大 dà
仲 zhòng
马 mǎ