前卫 (前衛)
qián wèi
Pinyin

Definition

前卫 (前衛)
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qián wèi
  1. advanced guard
  2. vanguard
  3. avant-garde
  4. forward (soccer position)

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

zhī qián
  1. 1 before
  2. 2 prior to
  3. 3 ago
  4. 4 previously
  5. 5 beforehand
yǐ qián
  1. 1 before
  2. 2 formerly
  3. 3 previous
  4. 4 ago
qián
  1. 1 front
  2. 2 forward
  3. 3 ahead
  4. 4 first
  5. 5 top (followed by a number)
  6. 6 future
  7. 7 ago
  8. 8 before
  9. 9 BC (e.g. 前293年)
  10. 10 former
  11. 11 formerly
qián shì
  1. 1 previous generations
  2. 2 previous incarnation (Buddhism)
qián lái
  1. 1 to come (formal)
  2. 2 before
  3. 3 previously

Idioms (20)

一往无前
yī wǎng wú qián
  1. 1 to advance courageously (idiom)
  2. 2 to press forward
不听老人言,吃亏在眼前
bù tīng lǎo rén yán , chī kuī zài yǎn qián
  1. 1 (idiom) ignore your elders at your peril
不顾前后
bù gù qián hòu
  1. 1 regardless of what's before or after (idiom); rushing blindly into sth
五百年前是一家
wǔ bǎi nián qián shì yī jiā
  1. 1 five hundred years ago we were the same family (idiom) (said of persons with the same surname)
停滞不前
tíng zhì bù qián
  1. 1 stuck and not moving forward (idiom); stagnant
  2. 2 in a rut
  3. 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。
Rìběn běnlái liǎngjí fēnhuà jiù lìhai ,ér Dōngjīng yòu jízhōng tǐxiàn le zhè yīdiǎn 。zài Yínzuò ,shàngbān zú dōu shì zhěngqí de wǎng qián bēnzǒu ,fēicháng yǒu guīlǜ 。kěshì dào Yuánsù 、Shègǔ ,wánquán jiùshì lìngwài yīpiàn tiāndì 。dōu shì dǎbàn qiánwèi de niánqīngrén 。
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。
duìa ,nà zài dào hòulái ,jīnmǎjiǎng shàng yòu chūxiàn le hěn duō sīxiǎng qiánwèi 、biǎoxiàn dàdǎn de xīnlàngcháo diànyǐng ,Hóu Xiàoxián de 《 bēiqíngchéngshì 》、Yáng Déchāng de 《 gǔlǐngjiēshàoniánshārénshìjiàn 》shì qízhōngde dàibiǎo 。
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。
méixiǎngdào Xiǎo Míng jiā nà wèi de sīxiǎng zhème qiánwèi ā ,zhè dīngkèzú zài Zhōngguó de zǔlì kě dàdeqùle 。
I never thought that Xiaoming was so forward thinking, there's a lot of resistance to the DINK concept in China.
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