Byzantium
[bɪ'zæntɪəm]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) an ancient city on the Bosporus founded by the Greeks; site of modern Istanbul; in 330 Constantine I rebuilt the city and called it Constantinople and made it his capital.
整理:米歇尔--From WordNet
例句/造句/用法:
- To the court of Tai-tsung came an embassy from Byzantium, and, what is more significant, from Persia came a company of Nestorian missionaries (631). 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Hitherto the court at Byzantium had possessed a certain indefinite authority over the Pope. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- When Alexander was a boy of sixteen, he had seen his father repulsed by the fortified city of Byzantium upon the Bosphorus. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- At first Byzantium was unwilling to recognize the imperial title of Charlemagne. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- He claimed to be the heir to Byzantium because of his marriage (1472) with Zoe Pal?ologus of the imperial line. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- We have already noted the existence of the city of Byzantium, which Constantine chose to develop into his new capital. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- In their imaginations a great and rich city to the south, a sort of confusion of Rome and Byzantium, loomed large. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Galata and Pera are on one side of the Bosporus, and the Golden Horn; Stamboul (ancient Byzantium) is upon the other. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
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