a place or position affording a good view of something 有利地位;优越位置 from my vantage point I could see into the front garden. 从这有利位置我可以看到前花园。 the past is continuously reinterpreted from the vantage point of the present. 过去总是不断地被从现在的观点出发重新解释。
语源
Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French, shortening of Old French avantage 'advantage'