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单词 the vanguard
释义
the vanguard
noun[S]
uk
/ˈvæn.ɡɑːd/us
/ˈvæn.ɡɑːrd/
thepartof anarmyornavythatleadsanattackon anenemy
先头部队，先锋；尖兵
Compare
rearguard
agroupofpeoplewholeadthedevelopmentof newideas, or aleadingpositionin thedevelopmentof something:
（思想的）先驱；领先地位
He isinthevanguardofeconomicreform.他是经济改革的领头人。
See also
the forefront
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Describing the leading position
(Definition ofthe vanguardfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

vanguard| American Dictionary

vanguard
noun[Cusually sing]
us
/ˈvænˌɡɑrd/
thefrontpartof agroupofpeoplewho aremovingforward,esp. anarmy
The vanguard is also thepeoplewho are makingchangesor newdevelopmentsin something:
These craftspeople are in the vanguard in theartofmodernfurnituredesign.
(Definition ofvanguardfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofthe vanguard

the vanguard
The mobilizedvanguardsaw its role as class organising and agitation.
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Those in thevanguardof this industrial growth grew in wealth and status.
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Within this carefully defined environment, community organizations were thevanguardof political activism encompassing, among many others, social movements to protect patients' rights.
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In anaphoric contexts, women were on thevanguardof the slow long-term development, as they led the stronger tendency toward the plural variant.
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Medical ethicists belong in thevanguardof the struggle to reclaim the moral high ground for a profession in danger of losing its moorings.
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This put him in thevanguardof the new theor y of education and upbr inging.
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Why put such terms as "culture shock" (p. 88), "vanguard" (p. 91) and "bread and butter" (p. 99) in quotation marks?
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There was a capitalistvanguardand there were missionaries of capitalism.
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And in the 1860s, the horsewoman was in thevanguardof style in women's publications.
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There is no indication of its precise circumstances; of how the revolutionaryvanguardwould be recruited, led, or organized; or what tactics it would use.
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Conflict can become a positive force when transformed and drama can be in thevanguardof its transformation.
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He continued to see himself as part of avanguardmodernist elite engaged in a crucial battle against a broad front of obstructionist conservative forces.
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Yet they are habitually bracketed together as thevanguardof positivism, of course, and indeed were close after the 1850s.
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I hope that we never initiate changes, nor even find ourselves in thevanguard.
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That orbit had to be left behind in order to consolidate his position in what, as he presented it, was the theoreticalvanguard.
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