cliques

英 [kliːks]

美 [klɪks]

n.  派系; 私党; 小集团; 小圈子
clique的第三人称单数和复数

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。

双语例句

• On the other hand, it was taken advantage of by the two counter-revolutionary cliques headed by Lin Biao and the Gang of Four, who schemed to usurp power.
  另一方面，错误被林彪、四人帮这两个反革命集团利用了。他们的目的就是阴谋夺权。
• He goes out with girls from different cliques.
  他跟不同圈子的女孩约会。
• The contradictions and struggles among the cliques of warlords in China reflect the contradictions and struggles among the imperialist powers.
  中国内部各派军阀的矛盾和斗争，反映着帝国主义各国的矛盾和斗争。
• Changing GM into triangulation graph GT, identifying and selecting cliques;
  把GM转变为弦化图GT，识别和选择GT图的圈；
• Connecting cliques and sides, constructing JT.
  连接圈和边建立JT。
• All traitorous persons and cliques came to no good end.
  所有的叛徒及叛徒集团都没好下场。
• And many women cannot break the habits of childhood, when they ousted rivals from playground cliques using subtle and indirect insults over extended periods of time.
  许多女性一直保持在童年养成的习惯，在很长时间里，她们为了对抗在校园中的对手经常使用一些隐晦的贬低性语言。
• Annual meetings are often a matter of pomp, with elite researchers showing up to swagger about and form cliques based on pedigree rather than scientific views.
  年会经常成为了炫耀的机会，精英科学家昂首阔步，夸夸其谈，他们根据血统而不是科学观点形成派系。
• Therefore, political, economic and social elite have the dominant power in their respective field and form the centre elite 、 the bridge elite and the cliques elite in their different domain.
  政治、经济和社会精英因此在各自的场域中掌握着支配权，形成了不同场域中的中心精英、桥点精英和派系精英。
• The election of Anfu Congress in1918 was regarded as a battle between different warlord cliques.
  1918年的“安福国会”选举被看做是披着宪政外衣的军阀派系斗争。