The name Chanel became a byword for elegance.
香奈儿这个名字成了优雅的代名词。
1.〈罕〉浑名,绰号;口头禅
2.俗话,谚语
3.笑柄
1.if someone or something is a byword for a particular quality, they have a strong reputation for that quality
1.It had become a byword for reckless lending , offering home loans of up to 125% and borrowing heavily on the international money markets.
银行发放高达125%的房贷，并在国际货币市场上大量举债，这一挤兑事件使该银行成为了不计后果发放借款的“代名词”。
2.Just as Cadillac used to be synonymous with luxury and BMW with sportiness, Toyota was a byword for quality and reliability.
正如凯迪拉克曾经是豪华的代名词，宝马是运动风格的代名词，丰田曾是高质量和可靠性的代名词。
3.The name of Figs, which had been a byword of reproach, became as respectable and popular a nickname as any other in use in the school.
无花果儿这名字本来含有侮辱的意思，后来却成了学校里最受欢迎和最体面的浑名儿之一。
4.Even more impressively, a region which had become a byword for financial instability mostly sailed through the recent recession.
更令人印象深刻的是一个曾经代表金融动荡的地区竟大致平稳度过了最近的经济衰退。
5.The bank has been a byword for sound lending (see chart).
该银行已然成了健全放贷的代名词。
6.Under Jobs, the company has gone from strength to strength, establishing itself as a byword for innovation and elegant design.
在乔布斯的领导下，苹果越来越强大，并确立了自己成为创新和高雅设计的代名词。
7.Over almost a century and a half, Brooks England has grown from a small workshop to a byword in quality craftsmanship.
在近一个半世纪，布鲁克斯英国已经从一个小作坊到一个优质工艺的代名词。
8.George Rood, conscious that he need not exhibit a brilliancy which was almost a byword , opened his mouth only to put food into it .
乔治·娄德知道他的妙语惊人已经尽人皆知，用不着再施展才华，因此每次张口只不过是往嘴里添送菜肴。
9.Girls Do not Cry is her pledge to release to the most perfect state, it is proved that the tears she is no longer a byword sad.
是她把女孩不哭的誓言释放到了最完美的境界，是她证明了泪水不再是悲伤的代言词。
10.God has made me a byword to everyone, a man in whose face people spit .
上帝使我作了民中的笑谈；他们也吐唾沫在我脸上。