pioneer
pioneer
noun
noun
- a person who is among the first to explore or settle a new country or area
拓荒者，开拓者；开发者
■a person who is among the first to research and develop a new area of knowledge or activity
先驱，先锋；创始人，创办者，倡导者
a famous pioneer of birth control.
计划生育的著名倡导者。
■(in the former USSR and other communist countries) a member of a movement for children below the age of sixteen that aimed to foster communist ideals
（前苏联等共产党国家的）少年先锋队队员
■a member of an infantry group preparing roads or terrain for the main body of troops
（先头部队的）工兵
■(in Ireland) a member of the Pioneer Total Abstinence Association, a Catholic temperance society
（爱尔兰）（天主教禁欲团体）完全禁欲先锋联盟的成员
- [with obj.]develop or be the first to use or apply (a new method, area of knowledge, or activity)
开发，开拓；开辟，开创，创办
he pioneered the use of television in lessons.
他开创了在教学中使用电视的做法。
■open up (a road or terrain) as a pioneer
开辟（路线）
- early 16th cent. (as a military term denoting a member of the infantry): from French pionnier 'foot soldier, pioneer', Old French paonier, from paon, from Latin pedo, pedon- (see pawn)
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