out-Byzantine

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英语[编辑]

词源[编辑]

out- +‎ Byzantine

动词[编辑]

out-Byzantine (第三人称单数简单现在时 out-Byzantines，现在分词 out-Byzantining，一般过去时及过去分词 out-Byzantined)

  1. (及物) 比……更精明
    • 2011, Theodore Vestal, The Lion of Judah in the New World, page 127:
      Although Ambassador Korry had admonished the president that “trying to out-Byzantine” the emperor “would be futile and counterproductive” and that Kennedy therefore should “spell out details of the U.S. program and justification from the start,” Washington tried to outsmart HIM […]
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