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

• 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。
• They tried to make their protests heard by the ruling clique.
  他们设法使统治集团听到他们的抗议。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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？
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。