Notes

① The emperor of China, Kublai Khan, liked him so much that he gave Polo a government job in China．中国当时的皇帝忽必烈如此欣赏马可波罗，任命其在当时的中国政府内任职。

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．欧洲人一开始不相信故事中所描述的事情，但是随着很多人前往东亚旅行，他们发现大多数故事是真实的。

其中的“as”表示伴随，引导从句。