old guard

英 [əʊld ɡɑːd]

美 [oʊld ɡɑːrd]

n.  (守旧的)元老派; 保守派; 卫道士

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牛津词典

noun

• （守旧的）元老派；保守派；卫道士
  the original members of a group or an organization, who are often against change

柯林斯词典

• N-SING-COLL （组织中的）保守派，守旧派
  If you refer to a group of people as theold guard, you mean that they have worked in a particular organization for a very long time and are unwilling to accept new ideas or practices.
  1. The old guard did not like the changes that Brewer introduced...
     保守派不满布鲁尔推行的这些变革。
  2. He belongs to the ruling Nationalist Party's old guard.
     他属于执政的国民党的保守派。

英英释义

noun

• a faction that is unwilling to accept new ideas

双语例句

• The Republican National Committee remained an Old Guard stronghold even after Mr Eisenhower's election.
  共和党的全国委员会甚至在艾森豪威尔先生当选总统之后仍然是保守派的堡垒。
• But for reform to continue, Mr Thein Sein needs to show the old guard concrete results.
  但要继续推进改革，登盛必须让保守派看到实实在在的成果。
• Tanna Oldfield's software company needed to establish rapport between some new hires and the firm's old guard.
  塔纳•奥德菲尔德的软件公司需要在新雇员工和老员工之间建立和睦融洽的关系。
• As a result, a great propaganda war between the old guard and the young rebels will break out and shake the halls of ivy.
  作为结果，老一代卫道士与青年反叛分子之间发生的宣传战将动摇常春藤构成的会堂。
• The managing director is one of the old guard, but the new young sales director seems to be getting the rest of the board to take a more up-to-date view.
  总经理是个保守派，但这位新来的年轻的销售经理，似乎在使其他的董事会成员接受更具有现代化的观点。
• The old guard of leaders are closed off behind walls built of yesterday's ideology.
  领导人的老警卫们生活在用过去的意识形态筑成的高墙内，与世隔绝。
• The academic old guard of seventeenth-century Italy used the church courts to stop Galileo.
  十七世纪意大利学院派老一代的卫道士利用教会法庭停止伽利略。
• The old guard of the prevailing paradigm has lost interest in debating scientific questions.
  普遍范式老一代卫道士对讨论科学问题已经失去了兴趣。
• Over the past two decades the old guard has taken a rusting industrial base and from it made gleaming corporate giants.
  过去二十年来，老一辈的人从锈蚀的工业基础中创建了闪亮的企业巨人。
• He belongs to the ruling Nationalist Party's old guard.
  他属于执政的国民党的保守派。