byword

noun

1. （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
   1. The name Chanel became a byword for elegance.
      夏奈尔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

1. N-COUNT （某一特征的）代名词，代表人物，典型事物
   Someone or something that is a byword for a particular quality is well known for having that quality.
   1. ...a region that had become a byword for violence and degeneracy.
      成了暴力和堕落代名词的地区
   2. ...the Rolls-Royce brand name, a byword for quality.
      劳斯莱斯品牌——品质的典范
2. N-COUNT 口头禅；俗语
   A byword is a word or phrase which people often use.
   1. Loyalty and support became the bywords of the day.
      忠诚和支持成了那个时代人们时常挂在嘴边的词儿。

1. Loyalty and support became the bywords of the day.
   忠诚和支持成了那个时代人们时常挂在嘴边的词儿。
2. And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.
   现在这些人以我为歌曲，以我为笑谈。
3. 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。
4. In the manner of something that has become a byword.
   以某事务已经成为谚语或格言的方式。
5. But Ontario has become a byword for decentralised, popular reform.
   但不论如何，安大略已经成为分权这个流行的改革方式的有力证明。
6. This anomalous Nazi-Sponsored haven for Jews, also called Theresienbad, is almost a byword in Europe.
   这个由纳粹创办的，非同寻常的犹太人避难所，又叫作特莱西恩巴德，在欧洲颇有名气。
7. 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。
8. The city is a byword for intolerance.
   这个城市成了不容异已的代名词。
9. Youth is our byword.
   青春是我们的代名词。
10. 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。
11. That company is a byword for inefficiency.
    这个公司是效率低的代名词。
12. Their shops are byword for good value.
    他们的商店以商品质量好为特点。
13. His name became a byword for excellence in saskatchewar hunting circles.
    他的名字在萨斯喀彻温河狩猎区成了优秀的别名。
14. It was a Halsey byword that he wouldn't trust a man who didn't drink or smoke.
    海尔赛有句名言，他不信任不喝酒不抽烟的人。
15. Hydropower plants have long been a byword for clean energy.
    水力发电站长期以来被视为清洁能源。
16. 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。
17. His name has becomea byword for cruelty.
    他的名字成了残酷无情的别称。
18. He has presided over an economic renaissance in Israel, during which the country has become a byword for high-tech flair.
    他带领以色列实现了经济复兴，在此期间该国成为高科技的代名词。
19. Historical development in review, we can then finder then the meaning of the byword got well affirmative.
    回顾历史的发展，我们可以发现者则谚语的意义得到了充分的肯定。
20. As for Western education, it is often contrasted with Chinese education as a byword for modernity and enlightenment.
    至于西方的教育，大部分的人说它比中国现代化，比中国开明。
21. Very early on, it became my style of living, my hometown, the byword for my base.
    它早就成了我生活的方式，成了我的故乡与基地的代名词。
22. 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。
23. Her name has become a byword for integrity.
    她的名字已成为正直的代号。
24. Twenty months later it had became a byword for weakness of will.
    二十个月之后，它却成了意志软弱的绰号。
25. The authorities have tackled some of the more glaring problems that have long made Chinese banks a byword for profligacy.
    一些比较突出的问题曾使中国银行业长期成为“浪费”的代名词。
26. 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。
27. And yet, they became so notorious for their moral rectitude that the word puritan has become a byword.
    然而，他们却以他们在道德上的正直而恶名昭彰，以至于“清教徒”在当时是个有贬义的绰号。
28. Another blast from the past is Blue Nun, formerly a byword for bad taste in wine but now revamped, improved and flying off the shelves.
    另一个来自过去的冲击波是德国葡萄酒品牌BlueNun，它曾因口味糟糕而沦为笑柄，现在却改头换面，大有改进且极为畅销。
29. The soldier's name was a byword for bravery.
    那个战士的名字原是勇敢的代名词。
30. 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。

noun

1. a condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people

   Synonym:    proverbadagesaw