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

• The wicked clique undermined the government and the state was thrown into turmoil.
  奸党乱政，国无宁日。
• Riddled with a thousand gaping wounds, this reactionary clique is now beset with difficulties and contradictions both in internal and external affairs.
  今天，这个反动集团百孔千疮，内外交困，矛盾重重。
• In this article, we introduce maximal connected subgraphs, maximal clique and perfect match of graph theory in biology especially in the study of protein structure research applications.
  本文介绍了最大连通子图、最大团和完美匹配等图论知识在生物学尤其在研究蛋白质结构研究方面的应用。
• 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？
• And it seemed like every clique had its own problems.
  看上去好像每个小圈子中都有自己的问题。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• A clique that seeks power usually through intrigue.
  通常通过阴谋手段寻求权力的小集团。