无论从形式还是内容来看，杰克逊皆开一时风气之先，做了前人没有做过的事。

In both form and content, Jackson simply did what no one had done before.

他宣布文言翻译的失败，开创了白话文翻译的新路，起到了开风气之先的作用。

He proclaimed the failure of translation in classical Chinese and took his pioneering role of breaking the path of translation in the vernacular.

王维是一位集大成的山水诗人，又是一位开风气之先的诗宗。他的山水诗清新自然，声色融合，意境空灵。

Wang Wei is a water and mountain poet, who not only gathered many other factions' characters, but also opened his own special styles.

领潮流之先，跨世纪创意。

She leads the trend of the first, and her creative century.

唐代岭南谪宦对该地区教育影响深远，其一是创岭南官学教育正规化和制度化风气之先，其二是岭南游学之风日兴。

Therefore, the banished officials had profound influence upon education of Lingnan. On one hand, they set up the institutional official education system. On the other, they led the fashion of study.