rearguard
英 [ˈrɪəɡɑːd]
美 [ˈrɪrɡɑːrd]
n. 后卫部队
复数：rearguards
BNC.19241 / COCA.36203
牛津词典
noun
- 后卫部队
a group of soldiers that protect the back part of an army especially when the army is retreating after it has been defeated
柯林斯词典
- （尤指战场上军队撤退时的）后卫部队
In a battle,the rearguardis a group of soldiers who protect the back part of an army, especially when the army is leaving the battle. - PHRASE 负隅顽抗;最后一搏
If someone isfighting a rearguard actionormounting a rearguard action, they are trying very hard to prevent something from happening, even though it is probably too late for them to succeed.- Mr Urban looks increasingly like someone fighting a rearguard action to keep their job.
厄本先生越来越像为了保住工作作最后一搏的那些人。
- Mr Urban looks increasingly like someone fighting a rearguard action to keep their job.
英英释义
noun
- a detachment assigned to protect the rear of a (retreating) military body
双语例句
- While it battles bin Laden's al-Qaeda network abroad, the agency has been fighting a ferocious rearguard action at home to keep the CTC independent of the new Department of Homeland Security.
当反恐中心在国外与本·拉丹的“基地”组织网斗争时，中情局在国内一直在进行一场使反恐中心独立于新设立的国土安全部的激烈斗争。 - And the armed men went before the priests who blew the trumpets; and the rearguard went after the ark, the trumpets continually blowing.
带兵器的走在吹号的祭司前面，后队走在约柜后面，祭司不住的吹号。 - But after leaving office, he seems to have been caught up in a rearguard action to protect his reputation in a country he has spent years visiting.
但离职之后的鲍尔森如今似乎正忙于维护其在中国的声望。鲍尔森多年来曾数十次访问中国。 - The tycoons 'rearguard action included a full-page letter published in local newspapers on December 29, three days before the rule was to take effect.
这些企业大亨采取的对抗措施包括去年12月29日在香港报纸上发表整版公开信，当时距离新规生效仅剩3天。 - Mr Urban looks increasingly like someone fighting a rearguard action to keep their job.
厄本先生越来越像为了保住工作作最后一搏的那些人。 - Senior French officials are mounting a rearguard action to defend the use of French at the United Nations and other international institutions as an international language of diplomacy in the face of the inexorable rise of English.
面对英语节节上升的地位，法国高级官员不甘言败，更加紧锣密鼓地捍卫法语作为一种国际外交语言在联合国和其它国际机构的应用。 - Squillaci will strengthen an Arsenal rearguard weakened by the departures of William Gallas, Mikael Silvestre, Sol Campbell and Philippe Senderos.
斯奎拉奇将会加强流失了威廉加拉，米凯尔西尔维斯特，索尔坎贝尔，菲利普森德罗斯的枪手后防。 - Owing to traits of modern Chinese politics, middle class in China is evidently a vanguard in consumption and a rearguard in politics as well.
因为当代中国社会的政治特点，使得中国中产阶级在政治上的后卫性和消费上的前卫性尤为明显。 - But they will always be fighting a rearguard action.
但这场战争他们永远无望获胜。 - So far, the intermediaries have fought a rearguard action, but that is unlikely to stop Mr Erhard for long.
目前中间商已经打起了一场保卫战，但这不太可能长久地阻挡艾哈德。