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.
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.
