avant-garde的词源

英文词源

avant-garde

avant-garde: see vanguard

avant-garde (n.)

(also avant garde, avantgarde); French, literally "advance guard" (see avant + guard (n.)). Used in English 15c.-18c. in a literal, military sense; borrowed again 1910 as an artistic term for "pioneers or innovators of a particular period." Also used around the same time in communist and anarchist publications. As an adjective, by 1925.

The avant-garde générale, avant-garde stratégique, or avant-garde d'armée is a strong force (one, two, or three army corps) pushed out a day's march to the front, immediately behind the cavalry screen. Its mission is, vigorously to engage the enemy wherever he is found, and, by binding him, to ensure liberty of action in time and space for the main army. ["Sadowa," Gen. Henri Bonnal, transl. C.F. Atkinson, 1907]

中文词源

avant-garde：先锋派

发音释义：[,ævɔŋ'ɡɑ:d] n. 先锋派；前卫派adj. 前卫的；先锋的

词源解释：来自法语avant garde，等于英语advance guard（先锋）

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