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单词 old guard
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Definition of old guard in English:

old guard

noun
  • The original or long-standing members of a group, regarded as unwilling to accept change or new ideas.

    the ageing right-wing old guard
    Example sentencesExamples
    • This week, though, the old guard will aim to re-impose the established order.
    • If that's the most the Treasury has learnt since Black Wednesday, let's hope the old guard has resigned or retired.
    • But even some of the old guard are aware of the acute need for change.
    • He was pushing 70, and the last representative of the old guard within the Congress.
    • The Cannes selectors put a great deal of their faith in the old guard of cinema greats this year and the decision appears to have paid off.
    • In the decade since Independence, most of the old guard have by now been amply rewarded for their loyalties.
    • We're using media in a new way that's fresh and exciting and it's making the old guard nervous.
    • The old guard, some of whom I cursed at the time, are a different breed from those who are taking their place.
    • The passing of so many from the old guard means that in Australia, they really are getting younger.
    • In my last years of teaching I was regularly informed that when the new breed of keen young teachers emerged from the colleges the old guard would be shown up.
    • Nevertheless, 1977 put anyone resembling the old guard into the firing line.
    • The other test will be how he handles renegades and copes with the vacancies caused by the departure of the old guard.
    • In Holland, talented new generations emerge to nudge out the old guard.
    • You've got a built-in bureaucracy - people will fight tooth and nail to keep their positions - and there are old guards in the ruling party.
    • When you were justice minister, you met resistance from the old guard.
    • Many of the old guard have now moved down a level, which will hopefully help to bring on the many youngsters in the sides.
    • He does this with bags of charm and eventually we're completely on his side despite his earlier culling of the old guard.
    • He was too easily swayed by others and too anxious to be accepted by the old guard of the Senate.
    • Tom was the last of the old guard who were a group of true community policemen.
    • There was an old guard moving out, as they gradually retired and people like myself came in.
 
 

Definition of old guard in US English:

old guard

(also Old Guard)
nounˌōld ˈɡärdˌoʊld ˈɡɑrd
usually the old guard
  • The original or long-standing members of a group or party, especially ones who are unwilling to accept change or new ideas.

    the aging right-wing old guard
    Example sentencesExamples
    • This week, though, the old guard will aim to re-impose the established order.
    • In Holland, talented new generations emerge to nudge out the old guard.
    • He does this with bags of charm and eventually we're completely on his side despite his earlier culling of the old guard.
    • The old guard, some of whom I cursed at the time, are a different breed from those who are taking their place.
    • But even some of the old guard are aware of the acute need for change.
    • Many of the old guard have now moved down a level, which will hopefully help to bring on the many youngsters in the sides.
    • If that's the most the Treasury has learnt since Black Wednesday, let's hope the old guard has resigned or retired.
    • The Cannes selectors put a great deal of their faith in the old guard of cinema greats this year and the decision appears to have paid off.
    • Tom was the last of the old guard who were a group of true community policemen.
    • In my last years of teaching I was regularly informed that when the new breed of keen young teachers emerged from the colleges the old guard would be shown up.
    • You've got a built-in bureaucracy - people will fight tooth and nail to keep their positions - and there are old guards in the ruling party.
    • Nevertheless, 1977 put anyone resembling the old guard into the firing line.
    • In the decade since Independence, most of the old guard have by now been amply rewarded for their loyalties.
    • The other test will be how he handles renegades and copes with the vacancies caused by the departure of the old guard.
    • There was an old guard moving out, as they gradually retired and people like myself came in.
    • He was pushing 70, and the last representative of the old guard within the Congress.
    • We're using media in a new way that's fresh and exciting and it's making the old guard nervous.
    • He was too easily swayed by others and too anxious to be accepted by the old guard of the Senate.
    • The passing of so many from the old guard means that in Australia, they really are getting younger.
    • When you were justice minister, you met resistance from the old guard.
 
 
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