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

• 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。
• 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 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。
• 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。
• 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？
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• The wicked clique undermined the government and the state was thrown into turmoil.
  奸党乱政，国无宁日。
• You gossip or are part of a clique.
  你爱八卦或者是小圈子的成员。