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

• Improvements and Applications of Cluster Analysis Algorithm CLIQUE
  聚类分析算法CLIQUE的改进及应用
• 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？
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• A clique that seeks power usually through intrigue.
  通常通过阴谋手段寻求权力的小集团。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。