cliques

英 [kliːks]

美 [klɪks]

n.  派系; 私党; 小集团; 小圈子
clique的第三人称单数和复数

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。

双语例句

• Another problem is that small factions or cliques must never be allowed to take shape in the party.
  还有一个问题，党内无论如何不能形成小派，小圈子。
• You might think you left the world of cliques and in-crowds behind when you left high school.
  你或许以为高中毕业就告别了拉帮结派和成群结队的生活。
• For this reason there were few cliques in the8th Route Army.
  这就是为什么八路军不存在什么派系的原因。
• They literally form cliques in high school.
  她们在高中就结成小圈子。
• And many women cannot break the habits of childhood, when they ousted rivals from playground cliques using subtle and indirect insults over extended periods of time.
  许多女性一直保持在童年养成的习惯，在很长时间里，她们为了对抗在校园中的对手经常使用一些隐晦的贬低性语言。
• Annual meetings are often a matter of pomp, with elite researchers showing up to swagger about and form cliques based on pedigree rather than scientific views.
  年会经常成为了炫耀的机会，精英科学家昂首阔步，夸夸其谈，他们根据血统而不是科学观点形成派系。
• Therefore, political, economic and social elite have the dominant power in their respective field and form the centre elite 、 the bridge elite and the cliques elite in their different domain.
  政治、经济和社会精英因此在各自的场域中掌握着支配权，形成了不同场域中的中心精英、桥点精英和派系精英。
• The election of Anfu Congress in1918 was regarded as a battle between different warlord cliques.
  1918年的“安福国会”选举被看做是披着宪政外衣的军阀派系斗争。
• He goes out with girls from different cliques.
  他跟不同圈子的女孩约会。
• Many Thais worry chaos will ensue when competing cliques slip the leash that has restrained them for so long.
  许多泰国人担忧，一旦相互争斗的派别摆脱了这种长期束缚它们的限制，混乱局面将接踵而至。