前卫 (前衛)
qián wèi
Pinyin
Definition
前卫 (前衛)
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- advanced guard
- vanguard
- avant-garde
- forward (soccer position)
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 before
- 2 prior to
- 3 ago
- 4 previously
- 5 beforehand
- 1 before
- 2 formerly
- 3 previous
- 4 ago
- 1 front
- 2 forward
- 3 ahead
- 4 first
- 5 top (followed by a number)
- 6 future
- 7 ago
- 8 before
- 9 BC (e.g. 前293年)
- 10 former
- 11 formerly
- 1 previous generations
- 2 previous incarnation (Buddhism)
- 1 to come (formal)
- 2 before
- 3 previously
Idioms (20)
一往无前
- 1 to advance courageously (idiom)
- 2 to press forward
不听老人言,吃亏在眼前
- 1 (idiom) ignore your elders at your peril
不顾前后
- 1 regardless of what's before or after (idiom); rushing blindly into sth
五百年前是一家
- 1 five hundred years ago we were the same family (idiom) (said of persons with the same surname)
停滞不前
- 1 stuck and not moving forward (idiom); stagnant
- 2 in a rut
- 3 at a standstill
Sample Sentences
日本本来两极分化就厉害,而东京又集中体现了这一点。在银座,上班族都是整齐地往前奔走,非常有规律。可是到原宿、涉谷,完全就是另外一片天地。都是打扮前卫的年轻人。
Japan's polarization has always been really remarkable. And Tokyo really concentrates and embodies it. In Ginza, the office workers all rush forward. They're extremely orderly. But when you get to Harajuku and Shibuya, it's completely different. It's all young people decked out in the most avant-garde fashions.
对啊,那再到后来,金马奖上又出现了很多思想前卫、表现大胆的新浪潮电影,侯孝贤的《悲情城市》、杨德昌的《牯岭街少年杀人事件》是其中的代表。
Yeah, then after that, there were the avant garde and bold New Wave films, such as the representative works, Hou Hsiao-hsien's "A City of Sadness" and Edward Yang's "A Brighter Summer's Day".
没想到小明家那位的思想这么前卫啊,这丁克族在中国的阻力可大得去了。
I never thought that Xiaoming was so forward thinking, there's a lot of resistance to the DINK concept in China.