old guard

基本解释

Letizia's status as a commoner, as well as her previous marriage to school teacher Alonso Guerrero, offended some of the old guard in Spain.
莱蒂西亚的平民身份，以及她与一名叫阿隆索.格雷罗的老师结过婚曾引起一些西班牙的保守派的不满。
The old guard in any society resents new methods, for old guards wear the decorations and medals won by waging battle in the accepted manner.
任何社会中的保守势力都怨恨新方式，因为他们自己就穿戴著那些在约定俗成的打法中胜利而赢得的装饰和奖牌。
That comment bolstered the view in Cairo and elsewhere in the Arab world that Washington had abandoned the protesters in favor of entrenched old guard it has relied on for the past 30 years.
威斯纳的这个评论，坚定了开罗和阿拉伯世界认为华盛顿已经抛弃示威者，支持其过去30年一直依赖的根深蒂固的保守势力这种观点。

One other very important thing to understand about this defensive problem and this is one of the debatable issues between the old guard and the traditional interpretation; I'm still giving you the traditional view.
对于防御的问题还有另外一个很重要的因素,这也是老顽固们对传统观点,争论的一个话题,我还是采用传统观点的说法
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But the move marks a further departure from the old guard, led by Sanford I.
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And while that may ruffle some feathers among the old guard, it's not necessarily all bad.
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There is no assurance that Omidyar's efforts will reap any greater good than the old guard.
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If you refer to a group of people as the old guard, you mean that they have worked in a particular organization for a very long time and are unwilling to accept new ideas or practices.