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

• 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。
• This problem is a generalization of the problem of finding the maximum cardinality clique of an unweighted graph.
  这个问题是寻找无权图的最大团问题的推广。
• You gossip or are part of a clique.
  你爱八卦或者是小圈子的成员。
• This is probably what many officers of the Whampoa clique are thinking.
  许多黄埔系军人可能就是这样想。
• A clique that seeks power usually through intrigue.
  通常通过阴谋手段寻求权力的小集团。
• 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？
• On this point they are entirely at one with the capitulationist clique.
  在这一点上，他们和投降派毫无二致。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。