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大仲马

大仲馬
Dàzhòngmǎ
proper noun #53,223

Meanings

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

Examples

HSK 4
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 zhīyī.
Dumas père was one of France's most popular 19th-century writers.
HSK 5
大仲马写了《三个火枪手》和《基督山伯爵》。
Dàzhòngmǎ xiě le 《 Sān gè huǒqiāng shǒu 》 hé 《 Jīdū shān Bójué 》.
Dumas père wrote The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo.

Tips

culture
大 ("the elder/big") distinguishes him from 小仲马, 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 huǒqiāng shǒu
The Three Musketeers
Dumas père's swashbuckling 1844 novel; the Chinese title is widely recognized.
基督山伯爵 Jīdū shān 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