vanguard
英 ['vængɑːd]
美 ['vænɡɑrd]
助记提示
1. avant: from Latin abante, a compound of ab "from" (see ab-) and ante "before" (see ante).
2. avant + guard => vanguard.
中文词源
vanguard 先锋，先驱来自法语avant-garde,先锋，先头部队，avant,前面，为advance原型，garde,护卫，词源同guard.
英文词源
- vanguard
- vanguard: [15] Vanguards have nothing to do with guarding vans. The word denotes etymologically an ‘advance guard’. It is short for the long defunct avantgard, which was borrowed from Old French avant-garde, a compound formed from avant ‘in front’ and garde ‘guard’. (Its modern French descendant was reborrowed into English as avant-garde [20].)
=> avant-garde, guard - vanguard (n.)
- mid-15c., vaunt garde, from Middle French avant-garde, from avant "in front" (see avant) + garde "guard" (see guard (n.)). Communist revolutionary sense is recorded from 1928.
双语例句
- 1. The company is proud to be in the vanguard of scientific progress.
- 这家公司以处于科学发展的领先地位而自豪。
来自《权威词典》
- 2. They are in the vanguard of technological advance.
- 他们是技术发展的先导.
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 3. In a way they played a vanguard role.
- 在某种意义上说,他们起了先锋的作用.
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 4. The vanguard units started off last night.
- 部队前锋昨晚已经出发.
来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
- 5. Sir James was an immensely distinguished architect in the vanguard of his profession.
- 詹姆斯爵士是一位非常杰出的建筑师，处于其专业领域的前沿位置。
来自柯林斯例句