coterie

英 [ˈkəʊtəri]

美 [ˈkoʊtəri]

n.  (志趣相同、合伙做事而排外的)小圈子，小集团

GRE

BNC.22254 / COCA.23134

牛津词典

noun

• （志趣相同、合伙做事而排外的）小圈子，小集团
  a small group of people who have the same interests and do things together but do not like to include others

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT-COLL (志趣相投而排外的)小集团，小圈子
  Acoterie ofa particular kind is a small group of people who are close friends or have a common interest, and who do not want other people to join them.
  1. The songs he recorded were written by a small coterie of dedicated writers.
     他录制的这些歌是由几名酷爱音乐的作曲家谱写的。

英英释义

noun

• an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose
  Synonym:cliqueingroupinner circlepackcamp

双语例句

• In addition to people like his stunt double, Mr. Schwarzenegger's traveling entourage includes a coterie of former administration staffers, including his former special assistant ( or 'body man'), his former communications director and his former deputy director of advance.
  除了他的特技替身演员，施瓦辛格的随行人员还包括一群与他一起共事的班底，如前特别助理、前公关主管、前助选副主管等。
• Seventy-five years after Benjamin Graham and David Dodd wrote Security Analysis, a growing coterie of modern-day value investors remain deeply indebted to them.
  本杰明•格雷厄姆和大卫•多德写成《证券分析》已经七十五个春秋了，摩登时代的价值投者家们不断加入其同仁的行列，至今仍对他们感激涕零。
• The name is known to only a small coterie of collectors.
  这个名字只有收藏家的小圈子才知道。
• Shanghai Chaos Investing Co is one of a coterie of funds exercising a growing impact on global metals markets, where the price of everything from aluminium drinks cans to lead batteries is set.
  上海混沌投资公司是少数对全球金属市场发挥越来越大影响的基金之一，从铝制饮料罐到铅电池等各种金属的价格都在这个市场确定。
• It represents the feature of Juvenile Student and Chinese Monthly, elucidates the same objective of Kaiming's coterie to literature and education by analyzing the content and their writers.
  论述了《中学生》、《国文月刊》为代表的开明杂志的特色，通过开明杂志撰稿作者群、撰稿内容的条分缕析，阐发了开明同人对文学、教育两者并重的旨趣。
• So they didn't want one king to arise, and they didn't want a small coterie of leaders to arise.
  所以他们不能让一个国王崛起，不能让一个小团体壮大。
• The songs he recorded were written by a small coterie of dedicated writers.
  他录制的这些歌是由几名酷爱音乐的作曲家谱写的。
• For, in the imaginations of a coterie of physicists, biologists and engineers, an alternative world is taking shape.
  因为，在一群物理学家，生物学家和工程师的想象中，另一个世界已经逐渐成形。
• The coterie magazine had acted an very important role in Wusi times, the relationships tangled with Wusi culture enabled itself to have the unprecedented complexity and the born vulnerability.
  同人杂志在五四时期扮演了至关重要的角色，它与五四文化这种纠结的关系使其本身具有空前的复杂性和与生俱来的脆弱性。
• Mary and her coterie gave a party to which we were not invited.
  玛利和她的圈内朋友举行派对，我们没被邀请。