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。
• 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。
• 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？
• 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。
• 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。
• As for the leading spirits of the Hu Feng clique, they have had disputes with us on many occasions before and since liberation.
  作为一个集团的代表人物，在解放以前和解放以后，他们和我们的争论已有多次了。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。