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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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***，我想，也许我想加入这个小团体。
• 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。
• 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 club is dominated by a small clique of intellectuals.
  这俱乐部被知识分子小集团把持着。
• The wicked clique undermined the government and the state was thrown into turmoil.
  奸党乱政，国无宁日。
• 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。