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.
萊蒂西亞的平民身份，以及她與一名叫阿隆索.格雷羅的老師結過婚曾引起一些西班牙的保守派的不滿。
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.
任何社會中的保守勢力都怨恨新方式，因爲他們自己就穿戴著那些在約定俗成的打法中勝利而贏得的裝飾和獎牌。
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.
威斯納的這個評論，堅定了開羅和阿拉伯世界認爲華盛頓已經拋棄示威者，支持其過去30年一直依賴的根深蒂固的保守勢力這種觀點。

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.
對於防禦的問題還有另外一個很重要的因素,這也是老頑固們對傳統觀點,爭論的一個話題,我還是採用傳統觀點的說法
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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.