avant-garde

UK:  [.ævɒŋ'ɡɑː(r)d]

US:  [.ɑvɑŋ'ɡɑrd]

复数：avant-gardes  

n.

1.先锋,先驱

2.(艺术的)先锋派

adj.

1.先锋的,先驱的

2.先锋派的,标新立异的

1 . His own early commitment to the avant-garde, he says, came from a "sense of duty to a chronically under-represented aspect of culture" .
他说，早期致力前卫音乐，是因为“对这种长期受到压制的文化带有一种责任感”。

2 . He was AT odds with the Russian avant-garde school of the time, but his work showed the confidence of a man sure of his style.
他对当时的俄罗斯先锋派持不同观点，但是他的作品表现出一个男子汉坚守自己的风格而毫不动摇的信心。

3 . It was one of the first avant-garde works to appeal to a wide audience.
这是受到听众广泛欢迎的第一批前卫作品之一。

4 . The children learning their table etiquette in Chardin's 1740 painting are in the avant-garde of a cultural revolution.
夏尔丹1740年画作里学餐桌礼仪的孩子是文化变革的先锋一代。

5 . Ms. Ono, 76, was an avant-garde artist in New York before she met Lennon in London in 1966.
76岁的小野女士，1966年在伦敦跟列侬相遇之前已是纽约的一名前卫艺术家。