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。
• Analysts believe Mr Papandreou will need to side with the reformists in his party, risking the alienation of the old guard which has a more populist economic agenda, while seeking the support of trade unions and other interest groups.
  分析人士相信，帕潘德里欧需要和党内的改革派站在一边，在寻求工会及其它利益集团的支持时，可能会疏远经济议程更趋于民粹主义的保守派盟友。
• The old guard can meet this challenge through the press and the courts.
  老一代卫道士能够通过新闻界和法院应付这些挑战。
• 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。
• Tensions began to arise between the old guard and some of their newer members.
  保守派和一些新成员之间的关系开始紧张起来。
• 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。
• 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。
• He knows I'm old guard. you're fringe.
  我是主流，你是非主流。
• 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。
• And he still seems bent on repaying election favours to a rapacious old guard.
  他一心想要答谢一位贪婪的老兵，为他的选举帮了忙。