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

• 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。
• He knows I'm old guard. you're fringe.
  我是主流，你是非主流。
• He was an old non-commissioned officer of the old guard.
  他原是旧羽林军里的一名下级军官。
• Not yet ready to make war on the old Guard, he came to terms with them.
  由于尚未准备好向保守派作斗争，就与之友好相处。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• New members of the party felt they had been double-crossed by the old guard.
  党内的新成员觉得他们被那个资深党员骗了。
• 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。
• 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。