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

• It was the46th army of the Kwangsi clique which attacked this region jointly with Chiang kai-shek's troops.
  曾经和蒋系军队一道进攻这一地区的桂系军队是第四十六军。
• 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。
• 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。
• So, when I got to the point when I was 28 and saw the cocaine, I thought, Maybe I want to join the clique.
  所以，一步步地，在28岁的时候我看到了可卡因，我想，也许我想加入这个小团体。
• 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。
• 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 wicked clique undermined the government and the state was thrown into turmoil.
  奸党乱政，国无宁日。
• A clique that seeks power usually through intrigue.
  通常通过阴谋手段寻求权力的小集团。
• 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。
• 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。