英语释义

• characterized by elaborate scheming and intrigue; devious;

  "Byzantine methods for holding on to his chairmanship"

  "a fine hand for Byzantine deals and cozy arrangements"

• highly involved or intricate;

  "the Byzantine tax structure"

  "convoluted legal language"

  "convoluted reasoning"

  "intricate needlework"

  "an intricate labyrinth of refined phraseology"

  "the plot was too involved"

  "a knotty problem"

  "got his way by labyrinthine maneuvering"

  "Oh, what a tangled web we weave"- Sir Walter Scott

  "tortuous legal procedures"

  "tortuous negotiations lasting for months"

• a native or inhabitant of Byzantium or of the Byzantine Empire

• of or relating to or characteristic of the Byzantine Empire or the ancient city of Byzantium

• of or relating to the Eastern Orthodox Church or the rites performed in it;

  "Byzantine monks"

  "Byzantine rites"

片语

Byzantine e像迷宫似的

byzantine empire拜占庭帝国（即东罗马帝国，395～1453，在欧洲东南部和亚洲西南部，由罗马帝国分裂而成）

the Byzantine拜占庭

Byzantine Agreement拜占庭协议

Byzantine Castle拜占庭城堡

Byzantine text叙利亚式或拜占庭式

Byzantine failure拜占庭错误

Byzantine Walls拜占庭城墻

Byzantine Art拜占庭艺术

byzantine fault拜占庭故障

英汉例句

• The city is famous for water tunnels and stone structures carved in the rock, including Ad-Dayr, 「the Monastery,」 an uncompleted tomb facade that served as a church during Byzantine times.

  城市以水渠与巖石雕刻工程而闻名，其中包括「代依尔」修道院，一座未完工的陵墓正面外观，它在拜占庭时期被用作教堂。

• No one doubts that America’s corporate-tax system is a Byzantine mess of high statutory rates and oodles of exemptions.

  没有人怀疑美国现行的公司税系统是一团乱麻，它有着太高的法定税率和太多的免除项目。

• Aramaic is still spoken here and we walked through a cleft in the rockface from the Convent of st Theda, where mass was in full swing, to the Monastery of st Sergius and its tiny Byzantine church.

  我们从正在做礼拜的圣泰德修女院经过山巖前的一个裂缝，走到圣瑟杰斯修道院和属于修道院的小小的拜占庭教堂。

• An anonymous Byzantine master, inspired by faith, imagined the beauty of the Lord「s garden.

  一个名不见经传的拜占庭大师受到信仰鼓舞，设想出上帝乐园之美。

• True, the Byzantine world was weighed down by deference to classical Greek models.

  诚然，拜占庭世界在遵从古典希腊模式方面略输一筹。

• To outsiders, the process of choosing party successors remains as opaquely Byzantine as ever.

  在外人看来，党的接班过程仍然充斥着不透明和拜占庭主义。

• But it will remain the case that more people are drawn to Byzantine civilisation through its dazzling art and architecture than by its literature.

  但事实是，更多的人是因为令人眩目的美术和建筑，而不是文学，被拜占庭文明所吸引。

• Those were lost but some of these manuscripts remained in the Byzantine world of Constantinople and some were translated by the Arabs and preserved in the Arabic world.

  其中有些手稿已经遗失了，有些则保存在拜占庭帝国的首都君士坦丁堡，有些则被翻译成阿拉伯文并保留在了阿拉伯世界。

• Giotto saw traditional Byzantine madonnas painted according to a formula that had satisfied everyone for centuries, and to him they looked wooden and unnatural.

  乔托看到传统拜占庭式圣母都是一个模式的作品，它让每个人满意了数百年，但是对他而言，这些作品是呆板的、不自然的。

• The Byzantine emperor Basil I officially recognized Mount Athos as a spiritual center in A.D. 883.

  公元883年，拜占庭皇帝巴息勒斯一世正式把阿索斯山定为教会中心。

• The Byzantine emperor Justinian declared in the sixth century that 「by natural law」 air, running water, the sea and seashore were 「common to all」.

  拜占庭皇帝查士丁尼在公元六世纪宣布「根据那些先天而成的法律」空气、流水、海洋和海岸是「所有人所共有的」。

• Greek tyrants, Arab emirs, Norman knights, Byzantine bishops and Holy Roman Emperors made Sicily the place it is.

  希腊暴君，阿拉伯埃米尔，诺曼骑士，拜占庭主教和神圣罗马帝国皇帝都能来西西里岛。

• The success of the quinquennial event was a sign that Byzantine studies are flourishing in almost every corner of the world.

  这个五年一次的盛会的成功举办，标志着拜占庭研究在全世界几乎各个角落都欣欣向荣。

• Long stretches in his prisons」 law libraries left him more familiar with the Byzantine rules of America「s federal prison system than most wardens.

  长时间泡在监狱的图书馆里，使他甚至比大多数监狱长都熟悉美国那极为复杂的监狱体制。

• The primary inspiration for Santa Claus is the 4th century Christian bishop Saint Nicholas of Myra. Nicholas resided in the ancient Lycian town of Myra, located in Byzantine Anatolia.

  最初的圣诞老人形象源自4世纪的迈拉基督主教——圣?尼克拉斯，他居住在小亚细亚拜占庭的古利西亚小镇迈拉。

• No one doubts that America」s corporate-tax system is a Byzantine mess of high statutory rates and oodles of exemptions.

  毫无质疑的是美国的公司税制是一个错综复杂的包含高法定税率却同时给与众多豁免的混乱体。

• Evidently Byzantine Greek borrowed the word specifically as it applied to those faces on COINS.

  显然，拜占庭的希腊语借用了这个词，确切地说，是它用于形容硬币两面的意思。

• But it has been a struggle, largely thanks to the Byzantine nature of the American system.

  由于美国系统的拜占庭性格，这可能会是一场斗争。

• This is basically where we start talking about the beginning of Byzantine Christianity because it's named after the town Byzantium or Constantinople, or Istanbul.

  基本上这时，拜占庭基督教就开始了，这个教的名字就是源于这座城市，拜占庭，君士坦丁堡，伊斯坦布尔。

• The first appeared in the 6th century during the reign of the Byzantine emperor Justinian, reaching his capital, Constantinople, on grain ships from Egypt.

  第一次爆发是在公元6世纪，拜占庭国王查士丁尼统治时期，瘟疫通过运粮船，从埃及蔓延到了当时拜占庭首都君士但丁堡。

• Right now, Byzantine history is in vogue at many universities while old-fashioned classical studies are struggling to hold their own.

  目前，拜占庭历史已成为许多大学的流行科目，而老式的古典研究则在挣扎着保有一席之地。

相似词

complicated难懂的，复杂的