Byzantine

1 an organization of byzantine complexity

拜占庭式复杂诡秘死板的机构

2 Built in the 1920s on the remnants of a 5th century Byzantine church, this is thought to be the site where the Holy Ark rested en route to Jerusalem.

3 In Ravenna, Dante would have visited the city’s ancient Byzantine basilicas and famed mosaics, and it is believed that he took inspiration for some passages of his masterpiece.

4 After the transient resurgence of imperial court of Macedonia, Byzantine Empire began to decline.

经过马其顿王朝短暂的中兴, 拜占廷帝国开始走向没落.

5 The Assyrian Empire overruns them both; then comes a parade of conquerors, from the Babylonians to the Byzantines, an immense chain of domination.

6 At its peak, the Byzantine Empire stretched from Syria to southern Spain.

7 There are plenty of different styles to flaunt and parade — Figaro, rope, curb, Byzantine, herringbone, bead and snake — each with intrinsic value inflated by context.

8 And, as vivid as an exotic bird, there’s a gold-haloed Byzantine angel, its figure repeated, floating from building to building: the guardian angel of Harlem, of African-American life there.

9 It was invaded by Muslims in 650 and Byzantine was forced out.

5—6世纪,先后受汪达尔人和拜占庭人的统治.

10 A 1-ton chandelier in the shape of a Byzantine crown hangs above the exquisite mosaic floor consisting of 2 million stones — a visual encyclopedia of animals and plant life.

11 In the central “Past” section, a quartet is dressed like figures in a Byzantine mosaic.

12 Beaded Byzantine crosses ran down the sides of a short dress.

13 Sparkling from the walls of eight early Christian monuments, the town’s Byzantine mosaics form the largest such collection in Western Europe.

14 In all the “Shrine” paintings, the top compartment was gold, like a Byzantine icon, and symbolized aspiration.

15 He was one of the first to use perspective and paint in a more natural style that broke with mediaeval and Byzantine traditions.

16 It has been occupied by Arabs, Romans, Vandals, Moors, Byzantines and pirates, until it eventually became Spanish territory.

17 It has been part of Roman, Bulgarian, Byzantine and Ottoman empires over the centuries.

18 Archaeologists were working to recover Byzantine pottery around a water cistern at a site near Jerusalem's Old City ahead of construction work.

19 When a fleet attacks her capital only to be annihilated by liquid explosives, the obvious parallel is with the "Greek fire" deployed by the Byzantines in their defence of Constantinople against the Arabs.

20 The two are naked and depicted in an unusually natural way, curvy and fully human unlike much of the art from the Byzantine era, which tends to be more stiff and formal.

1 死板的

stock rigid

2 诡计多端的

devious wily guileful trickish

3 东正教的

eastern

4 拜占庭

Byzantium

5 权谋

policy tactic

6 错综复杂

intricate convoluted labyrinthine intricately complexity complication maze intricacy convolution complex intricate knotty complexity intricacy reticular sinuosity

7 极其复杂的

convoluted fiendish

8 错综复杂的

intricate convoluted labyrinthine complex intricate knotty reticular

9 暗中进行的

stealthy

10 极为复杂的

inextricable

11 拜占庭风格的

Byzantinesque

12 迷宫似的

dedal daedal Daedalian