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.
中文解释
1. avant: from Latin abante, a compound of ab "from" (see ab-) and ante "before" (see ante).2. avant + guard => vanguard.
实用例句
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.
