n. 优势, 有利情况

Vantage \Van"tage\, v. t.
To profit; to aid. [Obs.] --Spenser.


Vantage \Van"tage\ (v[.a]n"t[asl]j; 48), n. [Aphetic form of OE.
avantage, fr. F. avantage. See {Advantage}.]
1. superior or more favorable situation or opportunity; gain;
profit; advantage. [R.]

O happy vantage of a kneeling knee! --Shak.

2. (Lawn Tennis) The first point after deuce.

Note: When the server wins this point, it is called vantage
in; when the receiver, or striker out, wins, it is
called vantage out.

{To have at vantage}, to have the advantage of; to be in a
more favorable condition than. ``He had them at vantage,
being tired and harassed with a long march.'' --Bacon.

{Vantage ground}, superiority of state or place; the place or
condition which gives one an advantage over another. ``The
vantage ground of truth. --Bacon.

It is these things that give him his actual
standing, and it is from this vantage ground that he
looks around him. --I. Taylor.