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

• They literally form cliques in high school.
  她们在高中就结成小圈子。
• 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。
• He is known for not making enemies at a bank that, like many Wall Street firms, has long had an entrenched political culture complete with fiefdoms, cliques, and power struggles.
  花旗集团与许多华尔街公司一样，长期以来一直笼罩在一种根深蒂固的政治文化氛围之中，其中还包括势力范围分割、拉帮结派和权力斗争等不良习气。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• A Study on Complex Network Based on Cliques and Its Application in Bus Transport Network
  基于派系的复杂网络及其在公交网络上的应用研究
• Hence, as long as China is divided among the imperialist powers, the various cliques of warlords cannot under any circumstances come to terms, and whatever compromises they may reach will only be temporary.
  故只要各国帝国主义分裂中国的状况存在，各派军阀就无论如何不能妥协，所有妥协都是暂时的。
• It has been our tradition that the army obeys the Party, that no small cliques are formed and that power is not concentrated in just a few hands.
  我们的传统是军队听党的话，不能搞小集团，不能搞小圈子，不能把权力集中在几个人身上。
• 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。