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

• 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？
• A politician who belongs to a small clique that controls a political party for private rather than public ends.
  属于一个控制一个政党的小党派专门谋私利而不是为公众服务的政客。
• 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。
• The wicked clique undermined the government and the state was thrown into turmoil.
  奸党乱政，国无宁日。
• This policy was advanced following the repudiation of the counter-revolutionary Hu Feng clique, and I think it remains correct because it accords with dialectics.
  这个方针，是在批判了胡风反革命集团之后提出来的，我看还是对的，是合乎辩证法的。
• 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。
• After careful investigation of many of these persons, this clique was found to be of some size.
  许多人认真一查，查出了他们是一个不大不小的集团。
• This problem is a generalization of the problem of finding the maximum cardinality clique of an unweighted graph.
  这个问题是寻找无权图的最大团问题的推广。
• 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。
• Two obvious periods of the principal contradictions in the ruling clique of Liu Song Dynasty could be seen.
  刘宋统治集团内部主要矛盾分为两个时期。