Examples of using A byword in English and their translations into Chinese
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After 1945 the Jewish genocide became a byword for modern barbarism, the epitome of twentieth-century mass terror….
Capitalism had won and socialism became a byword for economic failure and political oppression.
Before Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed al Nahyan's takeover in Sept 2008, the club had become a byword for failure and calamity.
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence(NICE) has become a byword for unbiased, evidence-based healthcare advice.
James and Seth started a company in 1909 that was to become a byword for excellence.
The PRC's detestation of internationalization of its one-sided scrum with the Philippines is a byword in Chinese diplomacy.
In the early 2000s, Liberia was a byword for civil war, chaos and child soldier as conflict raged in the West African country.
Lord Irvine said:“The name Denning was a byword for the law itself.
You're from a culture whose name is a byword for moral integrity.
Among economists, Japan is a byword, a punch line, a horror story.
You have made us a byword among the nations; the peoples shake their heads at us.
Today, lobotomy has become a disparaged procedure, a byword for medical barbarism and an exemplary instance of the medical trampling of patients' rights.
Then there's Facebook, a Silicon Valley behemoth whose insensitivity to its responsibilities to its users and society at large has become a byword.
For 120 years, Swarovski has been Austria's most celebrated name in crystal making has been a byword for innovation and glamour.
As the national airline of Switzerland, SWISS is a byword for traditional Swiss values.
For a century, Maksim has been a symbol of tradition and dignity, a byword for beauty and perfection.
A byword for elegance and style, it stems from Giorgio Armani's living dream of a warm, harmonious, highly comfortable and sophisticated haven.
Tahrir-- freedom-- has now passed into all our vocabularies as a byword for all those no longer prepared to see their basic human rights suppressed.
People use it as a byword.
I became a byword among them.