byzantine

英[baɪ'zæntaɪn] 美['bɪzəntiːn]
  • adj. 拜占庭的；拜占庭式建筑风格的；错综复杂的；暗中的
  • n. 拜占庭人

详细释义

Noun:
  1. a native or inhabitant of Byzantium or of the Byzantine Empire

Adjective:
  1. of or relating to the Eastern Orthodox Church or the rites performed in it;

    "Byzantine monks"
    "Byzantine rites"

  2. of or relating to or characteristic of the Byzantine Empire or the ancient city of Byzantium

  3. highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious;

    "the Byzantine tax structure"
    "Byzantine methods for holding on to his chairmanship"
    "convoluted legal language"
    "convoluted reasoning"
    "the plot was too involved"
    "a knotty problem"
    "got his way by labyrinthine maneuvering"
    "Oh, what a tangled web we weave"
    "tortuous legal procedures"
    "tortuous negotiations lasting for months"

双语例句

1. The images were Gothic or Byzantine rather than classical.
这些形象属哥特式或者拜占庭式而非古典式。

来自柯林斯例句

2. an organization of byzantine complexity
拜占庭式复杂诡秘死板的机构

来自《权威词典》

3. We propose a new protocol for the Byzantine Agreement which is based on agents.
本文在研究了国内外Byzantine协议 的基础上提出了一种新的Byzantine一致性 协议,即基于代理的Byzantine一致性协议.

来自互联网

4. The Byzantine Empire in theory represented the whole Christian world.
从理论上说,拜占庭帝国代表了整个基督教世界.

来自英汉非文学 - 文明史

5. There are also several well-preserved Byzantine frescoes.
也有几处保存完好的拜占庭时期的壁画。

来自辞典例句

    用作形容词 (adj.)
    1. The chief sources for the Greek mathematical works are Byzantine Greek codices.
      希腊的数学著作主要取材于拜占庭的希腊文手抄本。
    2. That is a bill to simplify the Byzantine tax structure.
      那是一项简化错综复杂的财税结构的议案。

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