clique
英 [kliːk]
美 [kliːk]
n. 派系; 私党; 小集团; 小圈子
vi. 结派; 结党
复数：cliques
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.- 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。
- Anna Ford recently hit out at the male clique which she believes holds back women in television.
英英释义
noun
- an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose
双语例句
- 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。 - 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。 - 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？ - You gossip or are part of a clique.
你爱八卦或者是小圈子的成员。 - The wicked clique undermined the government and the state was thrown into turmoil.
奸党乱政，国无宁日。 - 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。 - A clique that seeks power usually through intrigue.
通常通过阴谋手段寻求权力的小集团。 - 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。 - 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。