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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• You gossip or are part of a clique.
  你爱八卦或者是小圈子的成员。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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 clique usually has1~ 2 nucleus-heart character, majority is the class cadre.
  小团体通常有1～2个核&心人物，大多数是班干部。
• 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。