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

• 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。
• 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？
• As for the leading spirits of the Hu Feng clique, they have had disputes with us on many occasions before and since liberation.
  作为一个集团的代表人物，在解放以前和解放以后，他们和我们的争论已有多次了。
• Both Chiang and the CC Clique realized they had gone too far.
  蒋和CC系都感到自己做得过份了。
• A clique that seeks power usually through intrigue.
  通常通过阴谋手段寻求权力的小集团。
• 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。
• Our golf club is run by a very unfriendly clique.
  我们的高尔夫球俱乐部是由一个很不友好的小集团所经营。
• You gossip or are part of a clique.
  你爱八卦或者是小圈子的成员。
• This policy was advanced following the repudiation of the counter-revolutionary Hu Feng clique, and I think it remains correct because it accords with dialectics.
  这个方针，是在批判了胡风反革命集团之后提出来的，我看还是对的，是合乎辩证法的。
• The eunuch clique was so powerful, yet corrupt, that when Li Zicheng, the leader of an uprising during the late Ming dynasty, finally conquered the capital city, he kicked out all the eunuchs.
  太监集团非常强大，而且腐败，直到当李自成（明末起义军的首领）终于攻破了明朝首都，他除掉了所有的太监。