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Polonius is an old man in Shakespeare’s play Hamlet: a court adviser, and the father of Ophelia and Laertes. He loves giving long, tidy advice — “to thine own self be true” is his line — and he likes to listen in on other people. In the play he hides behind a thick curtain (an arras) in the queen’s room; Hamlet thinks the person behind it is the king, pushes a sword through the cloth, and kills Polonius by mistake. That death is an accident, and it still sets much of the rest of the tragedy moving. English classes talk about him as a busy, wordy old man who means well and sees too little. The name in school almost always means this character, not a real person you might meet.
波洛涅斯（《哈姆雷特》裡的角色）
組成After the character Polonius in William Shakespeare’s play Hamlet.
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Poloniusnoun
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A busybody who makes poor judgments.
- From the winged words of corporation executives, from the pulpits of economic Poloniuses, the same evil is identified and decried: the collapse of productivity. But are the sermons total myths?
Poloniusname
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A male given name of literary usage.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。