byword
美 [ˈbaɪˌwɜrd] 
英 [ˈbaɪˌwɜː(r)d]
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复数：bywords 同义词
英汉双解
1. | a ~ for sth （某种品质或特征的）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. 香奈儿这个名字成了优雅的代名词。 |
2. | 谚语；俗语a word or phrase that is well known or often used |
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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.
银行发放高达125%的房贷，并在国际货币市场上大量举债，这一挤兑事件使该银行成为了不计后果发放借款的“代名词”。
Just as Cadillac used to be synonymous with luxury and BMW with sportiness, Toyota was a byword for quality and reliability.
正如凯迪拉克曾经是豪华的代名词，宝马是运动风格的代名词，丰田曾是高质量和可靠性的代名词。
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.
无花果儿这名字本来含有侮辱的意思，后来却成了学校里最受欢迎和最体面的浑名儿之一。
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个曾经代表金融动荡的地区竟大致平稳度过了最近的经济衰退。
The bank has been a byword for sound lending (see chart).
该银行已然成了健全放贷的代名词。
Under Jobs, the company has gone from strength to strength, establishing itself as a byword for innovation and elegant design.
在乔布斯的领导下，苹果越来越强大，并确立了自己成为创新和高雅设计的代名词。
Over almost a century and a half, Brooks England has grown from a small workshop to a byword in quality craftsmanship.
在近一个半世纪，布鲁克斯英国已经从一个小作坊到一个优质工艺的代名词。
George Rood, conscious that he need not exhibit a brilliancy which was almost a byword , opened his mouth only to put food into it .
乔治·娄德知道他的妙语惊人已经尽人皆知，用不着再施展才华，因此每次张口只不过是往嘴里添送菜肴。
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释放到了最完美的境界，是她证明了泪水不再是悲伤的代言词。
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谈；他们也吐唾沫在我脸上。
This success made Daqing a byword for industrial zeal and heroic self-sacrifice in the name of the revolution.
这一成就让大庆成为以革命为名义的英雄般的自我牺牲以及工业热情地代名词。
Positive such as a byword words for spread in the United States: " Want ~only hard, the cowboy also can be the president. "
正如美国一句流行的谚语所言：“只要努力，牛仔也能当总统。”
ONCE a byword for state-run inefficiency, Telstra is now famous instead for corporate belligerence and executive arrogance.
曾经作为国营低效的代名词，澳州电信现在以其好战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.
全球市场的混乱已经明显使北京对自己的信念有了底气，即谨慎应该成为股票市场监管者的座右铭。
Beware though, 'emerging' isn't just a byword for growth.
不过要注意，“新兴”并不只是“增长”的代名词。
The general's name had become a byword for cruelty in war.
那位将军的名字成为了战争中残酷行为的代号。
This has brought new and more effective leadership into a business that was a byword for bad management.
整个行业将实行新的行之有效的管理，取代原来一团糟的管理制度。
His cowardice made him a byword to all who knew him.
由于他的懦弱，他在认识他的人中已被当作笑料。
Back then, Liberia was a byword for uncontrolled and environmentally devastating logging.
回想那时，利比里亚几乎成了失控的与不顾环境的伐木业的代名词。
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谈。他们也吐唾沫在我脸上。
For all who knew him, "Ask Herman" became a byword.
凡是认识他的人都把“问赫尔曼”当作一句口头禅。
For the broad mass of the European electorate, "Europe" has become a byword for unpopular and painful economic restructuring.
对于广大欧洲民众来说，“欧洲”已经成为一个不受欢迎而且棘手的经济重建的代名词。
AT HOME and abroad, China is a byword for fast-track development, where yesterday's paddy field is tomorrow's factory, highway or hotel.
昨天还是稻田，明天就变成工厂、高速公路或者酒店——中国因为其采取这类所谓的高速发展模式而成为国内外的笑柄。
It was a byword. Any time anybody wrote a popular article about music in the 1860s, they had to mention Babbage.
Babbage已经成为一个代名词，任何时候任何人写起关于十九世纪六十年代音乐的文章时都将不得不提起Babbage。
Enron was turned into books, films, a play and a byword for fiduciary failings and fraud.
安然事件被编成书，拍成电影，编成话剧并成为受托过失与欺诈的代名词。
This place was once a byword for poverty, sitting as it does in the middle of Brazil's drylands.
这个地方曾经是处于巴西旱地中部的贫穷的代名词。
The Praetorian Guard have become a byword for any military force which is used to prop up a ruthless regime.
罗马禁卫军，业已成为任何维持政权运作之无情军事机器的代名词。
Don McCullin, a byword for courage as well as awesome photography, suffered a bad thigh wound in Cambodia in 1970.
1970年，唐·麦卡林——勇气和杰出摄影的化身，在柬埔寨遭受了严重的腿部创伤。
The Flat Earth Society has become a byword for sticking your head in the sand, whatever the scientific facts.
现在，这个“平坦地球协会”俨然是无视科学、固步自封的代名词了。
The eccentric poet was a byword in literary circles.
这个古怪的诗人在文学圈内臭名昭著
You have made us a byword among the nations; the peoples shake their heads at us.
你使我们在列邦中作了笑谈，使众民向我们摇头。
It has become a byword for spiralling costs and delays.
它现在已经成了螺旋式上涨的造价和不断推迟的完工日期的代名词。
Stress has become the byword for a spreading anxiety.
压力已经变成了焦虑蔓延的代名词。
Caution is likely to remain the byword for some time to come.
未来一段时期，谨慎可能仍将是市场中的座右铭。
looks destined to go down as either a prophet or a byword for political villainy.
似乎注定将作为先知或是政治恶行的代名词载入史册。
In bubble-era Japan, a byword for manic real estate speculation, apartment prices peaked at 12-15 times average household income.
在泡沫时代的日本（疯狂房地产投机的代名词），公寓价格的最高水平为家庭平均收入的12至15倍。
The industry became a byword for mendacity, secrecy and profligacy with taxpayers' money.
这个产业已经成为谎言、秘密以及浪费纳税人钱财的代名词。
IN THE 1960s, when Japan emerged as a manufacturing exporter, it soon became a byword for low cost and low quality.
20世纪60年代，日本作为出口商，很快就成为低价和劣质的代名词。
An English byword "A picture paints a thousand words" is very appropriate to use here, just look at the photos.
倒是有句英文谚语“一图胜千言”用在此处很恰当，还是看照片吧。
It's a byword for lazy, slacker, for being somebody who gives up.
它是懒，懒虫的代名词，是用来说那些做事容易放弃的人的。
Today, the can is an impressive package that is a byword for quality and content protection.
今天，可以是一个了不起的包在质量和内容保护的代名词。
