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The vanguard was originally the front part of an army, moving ahead of the main group. Now it's mostly used for people or ideas that are out in front of everyone else - leading a new movement or new way of thinking, before most people catch on. 'At the vanguard of' something means being one of the earliest and most important people pushing it forward.
先鋒；前衛(領先者)
組成From French 'avant-garde' - avant (front, before) + garde (guard) - shortened into English as 'vanguard'
同家族的字
- avant-gardevanguard and avant-garde come from the very same French phrase, meaning 'front guard'
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
vanguardnoun/ˈvanˌɡɑːd/
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governmentmilitarypoliticsThe leading units at the front of an army or fleet.
- They ſay, that the King diuided his Armie into three Battailes; whereof the Vant-guard onely well ſtrengthened with wings, came to fight.
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The person or people at the forefront of a group or movement.
- By some paradoxical evolution rancour and intolerance have been established in the vanguard of primitive Christianity. Mrs. Spoker, in common with many of the stricter disciples of righteousness, was as inclement in demeanour as she was cadaverous in aspect.
- [O]ne minute this "Jihadi John" was struggling to get by, and get accepted, in drizzly England, unemployed with a mortgage to pay and a chip on his shoulder, and the next he stands in brilliant Levantine sunlight, where everything is clear and etched, at the vanguard of some Sunni Risorgimento intent on subjecting the world to its murderous brand of Wahhabi Islam.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。