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

• It is a feature of semi-colonial China that, since the first year of the republic, the various cliques of old and new warlords have waged incessant wars against one another, supported by imperialism from abroad and by the comprador and landlord classes at home.
  帝国主义和国内买办豪绅阶级支持着的各派新旧军阀，从民国元年以来，相互间进行着继续不断的战争，这是半殖民地中国的特征之一。
• Don't join cliques or deal in office politics.
  不加入集团或处理，在办公室政治。
• 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；
• 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。
• Such kind of force upon the envoys from the political cliques has its profound system background.
  政治派系对使臣这种影响力，有其深刻的制度背景。
• 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。
• They literally form cliques in high school.
  她们在高中就结成小圈子。
• 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。
• 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。
• Lin Biao and Jiang Qing formed counter-revolutionary cliques.
  林彪、江青是反革命集团。