byword
美 [?ba??w?rd] 
英 [?ba??w??(r)d]
詞形變化
復數：bywords 同義詞
英漢雙解
1. | a ~ for sth （某種品質或特征的）代表人，代表事物，典范a person or thing that is a well-known or typical example of a particular quality |
| The name Chanel became a byword for elegance. 香奈兒這個名字成了優雅的代名詞。 |
2. | 諺語；俗語a word or phrase that is well known or often used |
英漢解釋
英英解釋
例句
It had become a byword for reckless lending , offering home loans of up to 125% and borrowing heavily on the international money markets.
銀行發放高達125%的房貸，并在國際貨幣市場上大量舉債，這一擠兌事件使該銀行成為了不計后果發放借款的“代名詞”。
Just as Cadillac used to be synonymous with luxury and BMW with sportiness, Toyota was a byword for quality and reliability.
正如凱迪拉克曾經是豪華的代名詞，寶馬是運動風格的代名詞，豐田曾是高質量和可靠性的代名詞。
The name of Figs, which had been a byword of reproach, became as respectable and popular a nickname as any other in use in the school.
無花果兒這名字本來含有侮辱的意思，后來卻成了學校里最受歡迎和最體面的渾名兒之一。
Even more impressively, a region which had become a byword for financial instability mostly sailed through the recent recession.
更令人印象深刻的是一個曾經代表金融動蕩的地區竟大致平穩度過了最近的經濟衰退。
The bank has been a byword for sound lending (see chart).
該銀行已然成了健全放貸的代名詞。
Under Jobs, the company has gone from strength to strength, establishing itself as a byword for innovation and elegant design.
在喬布斯的領導下，蘋果越來越強大，并確立了自己成為創新和高雅設計的代名詞。
Over almost a century and a half, Brooks England has grown from a small workshop to a byword in quality craftsmanship.
在近一個半世紀，布魯克斯英國已經從一個小作坊到一個優質工藝的代名詞。
George Rood, conscious that he need not exhibit a brilliancy which was almost a byword , opened his mouth only to put food into it .
喬治·婁德知道他的妙語驚人已經盡人皆知，用不著再施展才華，因此每次張口只不過是往嘴里添送菜肴。
Girls Do not Cry is her pledge to release to the most perfect state, it is proved that the tears she is no longer a byword sad.
是她把女孩不哭的誓言釋放到了最完美的境界，是她證明了淚水不再是悲傷的代言詞。
God has made me a byword to everyone, a man in whose face people spit .
上帝使我作了民中的笑談；他們也吐唾沫在我臉上。
This success made Daqing a byword for industrial zeal and heroic self-sacrifice in the name of the revolution.
這一成就讓大慶成為以革命為名義的英雄般的自我犧牲以及工業熱情地代名詞。
Positive such as a byword words for spread in the United States: " Want ~only hard, the cowboy also can be the president. "
正如美國一句流行的諺語所言：“只要努力，牛仔也能當總統。”
ONCE a byword for state-run inefficiency, Telstra is now famous instead for corporate belligerence and executive arrogance.
曾經作為國營低效的代名詞，澳州電信現在以其好戰和管理者傲慢而出名。
Chaos in world markets has clearly made Beijing feel vindicated in its belief that caution should be the byword of equity market regulators.
全球市場的混亂已經明顯使北京對自己的信念有了底氣，即謹慎應該成為股票市場監管者的座右銘。
Beware though, 'emerging' isn't just a byword for growth.
不過要注意，“新興”并不只是“增長”的代名詞。
The general's name had become a byword for cruelty in war.
那位將軍的名字成為了戰爭中殘酷行為的代號。
This has brought new and more effective leadership into a business that was a byword for bad management.
整個行業將實行新的行之有效的管理，取代原來一團糟的管理制度。
His cowardice made him a byword to all who knew him.
由于他的懦弱，他在認識他的人中已被當作笑料。
Back then, Liberia was a byword for uncontrolled and environmentally devastating logging.
回想那時，利比里亞幾乎成了失控的與不顧環境的伐木業的代名詞。
He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.
神使我作了民中的笑談。他們也吐唾沫在我臉上。
For all who knew him, "Ask Herman" became a byword.
凡是認識他的人都把“問赫爾曼”當作一句口頭禪。
For the broad mass of the European electorate, "Europe" has become a byword for unpopular and painful economic restructuring.
對于廣大歐洲民眾來說，“歐洲”已經成為一個不受歡迎而且棘手的經濟重建的代名詞。
AT HOME and abroad, China is a byword for fast-track development, where yesterday's paddy field is tomorrow's factory, highway or hotel.
昨天還是稻田，明天就變成工廠、高速公路或者酒店——中國因為其采取這類所謂的高速發展模式而成為國內外的笑柄。
It was a byword. Any time anybody wrote a popular article about music in the 1860s, they had to mention Babbage.
Babbage已經成為一個代名詞，任何時候任何人寫起關于十九世紀六十年代音樂的文章時都將不得不提起Babbage。
Enron was turned into books, films, a play and a byword for fiduciary failings and fraud.
安然事件被編成書，拍成電影，編成話劇并成為受托過失與欺詐的代名詞。
This place was once a byword for poverty, sitting as it does in the middle of Brazil's drylands.
這個地方曾經是處于巴西旱地中部的貧窮的代名詞。
The Praetorian Guard have become a byword for any military force which is used to prop up a ruthless regime.
羅馬禁衛軍，業已成為任何維持政權運作之無情軍事機器的代名詞。
Don McCullin, a byword for courage as well as awesome photography, suffered a bad thigh wound in Cambodia in 1970.
1970年，唐·麥卡林——勇氣和杰出攝影的化身，在柬埔寨遭受了嚴重的腿部創傷。
The Flat Earth Society has become a byword for sticking your head in the sand, whatever the scientific facts.
現在，這個“平坦地球協會”儼然是無視科學、固步自封的代名詞了。
The eccentric poet was a byword in literary circles.
這個古怪的詩人在文學圈內臭名昭著
You have made us a byword among the nations; the peoples shake their heads at us.
你使我們在列邦中作了笑談，使眾民向我們搖頭。
It has become a byword for spiralling costs and delays.
它現在已經成了螺旋式上漲的造價和不斷推遲的完工日期的代名詞。
Stress has become the byword for a spreading anxiety.
壓力已經變成了焦慮蔓延的代名詞。
Caution is likely to remain the byword for some time to come.
未來一段時期，謹慎可能仍將是市場中的座右銘。
looks destined to go down as either a prophet or a byword for political villainy.
似乎注定將作為先知或是政治惡行的代名詞載入史冊。
In bubble-era Japan, a byword for manic real estate speculation, apartment prices peaked at 12-15 times average household income.
在泡沫時代的日本（瘋狂房地產投機的代名詞），公寓價格的最高水平為家庭平均收入的12至15倍。
The industry became a byword for mendacity, secrecy and profligacy with taxpayers' money.
這個產業已經成為謊言、秘密以及浪費納稅人錢財的代名詞。
IN THE 1960s, when Japan emerged as a manufacturing exporter, it soon became a byword for low cost and low quality.
20世紀60年代，日本作為出口商，很快就成為低價和劣質的代名詞。
An English byword "A picture paints a thousand words" is very appropriate to use here, just look at the photos.
倒是有句英文諺語“一圖勝千言”用在此處很恰當，還是看照片吧。
It's a byword for lazy, slacker, for being somebody who gives up.
它是懶，懶蟲的代名詞，是用來說那些做事容易放棄的人的。
Today, the can is an impressive package that is a byword for quality and content protection.
今天，可以是一個了不起的包在質量和內容保護的代名詞。
