byword是什么意思音标:英 [ˈbaɪwɜ:d]美 [ˈbaɪˌwɚd]

n. 谚语, 俗话, 笑柄

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

byword的用法和例句：

1.The eyes of all people are upon us, so that if we shall deal falsely with our god in this work we have undertaken, and so cause him to withdraw his presence him from us, we shall be made a story and a byword throughout the world.

所有人的眼睛都注视着我们 因此如果我们在我们所做的这件事上 对我们的上帝虚妄 致使他不再出现在我们的面前 我们势必会成为全世界的 谈资和笑料