clique

英 [kliːk]

美 [kliːk]

n.  派系; 私党; 小集团; 小圈子
vi.  结派; 结党

复数：cliques　

GRE计算机

Collins.1 / BNC.19390 / COCA.15142

牛津词典

noun

• 派系；私党；小集团；小圈子
  a small group of people who spend their time together and do not allow others to join them

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 派系;小集团
  If you describe a group of people as aclique, you mean that they spend a lot of time together and seem unfriendly towards people who are not in the group.
  1. Anna Ford recently hit out at the male clique which she believes holds back women in television.
     最近，安娜·福特对她认为阻碍了女性在电视业发展的男性集团进行了猛烈抨击。

英英释义

noun

• an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose
  Synonym:coterieingroupinner circlepackcamp

双语例句

• It was the46th army of the Kwangsi clique which attacked this region jointly with Chiang kai-shek's troops.
  曾经和蒋系军队一道进攻这一地区的桂系军队是第四十六军。
• Not so long ago, this small clique could mould the world according to its predilections.
  就在不久以前，这个小集团还可以按照自己的嗜好来安排世界事务。
• So, when I got to the point when I was 28 and saw the cocaine, I thought, Maybe I want to join the clique.
  所以，一步步地，在28岁的时候我看到了可卡因，我想，也许我想加入这个小团体。
• At university, Taylor had fallen in with a small clique of literature students.
  在大学里，泰勒曾经频繁参与一个文学小团体的活动。
• You gossip or are part of a clique.
  你爱八卦或者是小圈子的成员。
• Q: Was there a supermodel clique in your era?
  问：在你同时代的超级模特中有没有比较要好的一群朋友？
• But I have a clear conscience, partly because I have never tried to form a clique.
  但是我问心无愧，其中一点就是从来不搞小圈子。
• In a sense it was still a clique; the replacement of one society with another.
  从某种程度而言，它仍然是个小圈子，只是用一个社会团体去取代另一个而已。
• It might, at last, silence the small but noisy intellectual clique.
  它可能最终会使这个聒噪的知识分子小圈子安静下来。
• The wicked clique undermined the government and the state was thrown into turmoil.
  奸党乱政，国无宁日。