| 单词 | avant-garde |
| 例句 | avant-garde adjective •this year's avant-garde fashion statement:innovative, original, experimental, left-field, inventive, ahead of the times, cutting/leading/bleeding edge, new, modern, innovatory, advanced, forward-looking, state-of-the-art, trend-setting, pioneering, progressive, Bohemian, groundbreaking, trailblazing, revolutionary | unfamiliar, unorthodox, unconventional | informal offbeat, way-out. ANT conservative.WORD NOTE avant-garde I met a traveler from a modern land who said: I used to think I knew what avant-garde meant, it meant new art so advanced you can't understand it, like a chic perfume without a scent. An avant-garde poem was abstract you could get rid of commas and capital letters forget making sense dreams were better irony mandatory and meaning arbitrary like poker with blanks instead of cards. It was intimidating and I remained leery until I met A. and his avant-garde smile: “Just do the opposite of whatever's in style,” he said with a wink when he won an award. “You see, it isn't so hard to be avant-garde.” — DLConversational, opinionated, and idiomatic, these Word Notes are an opportunity to see a working writer's perspective on a particular word or usage. |
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