rearguard

noun

1. 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

1. （尤指战场上军队撤退时的）后卫部队
   In a battle, the rearguard is a group of soldiers who protect the back part of an army, especially when the army is leaving the battle.
2. PHRASE 负隅顽抗;最后一搏
   If someone is fighting a rearguard action or mounting a rearguard action, they are trying very hard to prevent something from happening, even though it is probably too late for them to succeed.
   1. 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。

1. 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。
2. 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。
3. The Chelsea boss was frustrated by his team's inability to breakdown a resolute Reds rearguard and praised Kenny Dalglish's men for their attitude and commitment.
   这位切尔西主帅对他的球队不能撕破我军滴水不漏的防线感到失望。他也称赞利物浦的球员所展现的积极态度和决心。
4. To veer further off the Enterprise Week message, I wonder whether this Treasury-inspired campaign merely represents a rearguard action against demographics?
   离创业周的话题再远一些。我想知道，英国财政部授意下的此次活动，仅是对人口结构变化的一种防卫行动吗？
5. 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。
6. The 23 year-old has been watched by Juve, with coach Didier Deschamps keen to strengthen his rearguard during the winter market.
   尤文之前考察过这名23岁的球员.主教练迪迪埃.德尚希望在冬季转会市场加强他们的阵容。
7. 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。
8. Next came the musicians and a rearguard of capering fakirs, whose cries sometimes drowned the noise of the instruments.
   接着是乐队和一支狂热的信徒组成的大军，他们叫喊的声音，有时甚至掩盖了那震耳欲聋的乐器声。
9. What if, instead of fighting a rearguard action against the encroaching oceans, we stopped sea levels rising at all?
   或许，我们并不需要就海洋侵占陆地问题采取消极应对措施，但我们可以从根本上解决海平面上升问题吗？
10. Instead it often seems lost in unseemly rearguard actions to preserve a fading status.
    相反，欧洲似乎常常沉迷于用不得体的后卫行动，来维护其日益下滑的地位。
11. 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。
12. Manufacturers fighting rearguard actions against user-created content should look instead to the new business models being developed by companies such as Google.
    正在针对用户自建内容进行“保卫战”的制造商，应该看看谷歌（google）等公司开发的新业务模式。
13. A qualifiedly control the ball rearguard have to can under the circumstance that only a person defend him, have no the problem ground take ball half time.
    一个合格的控球后卫必须要能够在只有一个人防守他的情况下，毫无问题地将球带过半场。
14. Calderwood fought a stubborn rearguard action against the transformation of his section.
    考尔德伍德仍在顽强抗拒改组他的科室的行动。
15. Caretaker boss Kenny Dalglish had to wait until his fourth game back in charge for a victory due to a clutch of rearguard lapses.
    临时教练肯尼达格利什自从回归接管球队以来，由于一系列的后防失误，需要等到他的第四场比赛才取得胜利。
16. The Das Reich Division stayed as the rearguard on the eastern edge of the pocket.
    “帝国”师在包围圈东部作为后卫部队留了下来。
17. They tried to stage a rearguard action to defend Vienna, but it was futile.
    他们试图作为后卫部队来包围维也纳，但是却失败了。
18. 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。
19. 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。
20. The Reds vice-captain admits he has struggled to hit peak form so far this season but insists it won't be long before both he, and the Liverpool rearguard, are back amongst the shut-outs.
    利物浦副队承认他目前为止他的状态一直摇摆不定，但是他强调这个糟糕局面不会在持续多久了，他和利物浦后卫正在回到严加死守的防守布阵。
21. Critics still question what will happen if the goals run out and the rearguard becomes a bit more flakey.
    批评者在质问，如果到何时不能进球了，而后防又更加疯癫了，要如何？
22. But they will always be fighting a rearguard action.
    但这场战争他们永远无望获胜。
23. 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。
24. Sir Alex Ferguson is believed to be interested in luring the24-year-old to Old Trafford in a bid to boost his shaky rearguard.
    弗爵爷被一致认定对24岁的后卫很感兴趣，打算招募他来改善老特拉福德不稳定的后防线。
25. 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。

noun

1. a detachment assigned to protect the rear of a (retreating) military body