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

• It is a feature of semi-colonial China that, since the first year of the republic, the various cliques of old and new warlords have waged incessant wars against one another, supported by imperialism from abroad and by the comprador and landlord classes at home.
  帝国主义和国内买办豪绅阶级支持着的各派新旧军阀，从民国元年以来，相互间进行着继续不断的战争，这是半殖民地中国的特征之一。
• 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 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Political Cliques and Their Conflicts in Wei State; characterized by a government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control.
  以行使绝对的和中央集权控制的政治权力的政府为特点。
• The Kim dynasty and the cliques around it may profess disdain for capitalism, but they understand the goal of personal enrichment as well as any wall street master of the universe.
  金氏王朝以及围绕它的利益集团，或许会公开表达对资本主义的蔑视，但他们对个人致富目标的理解，与华尔街的那些“宇宙主宰”们毫无二致。
• Don't join cliques or deal in office politics.
  不加入集团或处理，在办公室政治。
• They literally form cliques in high school.
  她们在高中就结成小圈子。
• On the other hand, it was taken advantage of by the two counter-revolutionary cliques headed by Lin Biao and the Gang of Four, who schemed to usurp power.
  另一方面，错误被林彪、四人帮这两个反革命集团利用了。他们的目的就是阴谋夺权。