创始人某一领域内的革新领袖；先驱 An innovative leader in a field; a pioneer.
戴姆勒，戈特利布1834－1900德国工程师和汽车制造业先驱，他研制出第一台高速内燃机（1885年） German engineer and pioneer automobile manufacturer who produced the first high-speed internal-combustion engine(1885).
举凡在1900年以前在美国做过某些事的人，都很容易被拍成电影 ... 以他是先驱人士为其理由。 Anybody who did anything in America up to1900 was liable to be made into a film ... on the grounds of being a pioneer.
迈布里奇，伊德韦尔德1830－1904英国裔美国动态摄影先驱，以其通过一系列静物摄影机拍下的移动中的马的照片而著名 British-born American motion-picture pioneer noted for his photographs of horses in motion, taken by a series of still cameras.
