old guard

英 [əʊld ɡɑːd]

美 [oʊld ɡɑːrd]

n.  (守旧的)元老派; 保守派; 卫道士

Collins.1

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 old guard stood by their leader in his difficult days.
  追随者在领袖最艰苦的日子与他站在一起。
• 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。
• The old guard is only now recognizing the fact that your present reality is beyond saving.
  守旧的保护人现在才认识到你们的当下世界实相已不能挽回。
• 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 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。
• He belongs to the ruling Nationalist Party's old guard.
  他属于执政的国民党的保守派。
• 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。
• 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。
• But one can't imagine any of the old guard of Hong Kong's business community ( except for maybe Gordon Wu) risking Beijing's wrath in this way.
  但是任何人都不敢想象香港商业社会的守旧者（或许除了胡应湘外）会以这种方式冒激怒北京的险。
• It will not be easy to winkle out the old guard and train younger replacements.
  解雇老警卫、再训练年轻警卫取而代之并不是件容易的事。