【clique】 - SAT备考词汇

clique

UK:  [kliːk]

US:  [klik]

复数：cliques  

n.

1.派系;小集团

2.派系,集团,帮会;〔美俚〕棒球队

3.〔计〕集团型

4.〔数〕团

v.

1.〔口语〕结党

1 . Like an earnest teacher who'd been outsmarted by a clique of relentlessly cheating students, it had lost credibility.
就像一位认真的老师惨遭一群作弊学生无情戏弄那样，它（Google）已经丧失了公信力。

2 . An art is only great and significant if it is one that all may enjoy. The art of a clique is but a plaything.
人人喜爱的艺术具有真正伟大的意义。仅为某一群体所喜爱的艺术只是一种玩物。

3 . I've had nothing to do with him since he got in with that rather disreputable clique.
自从他和那个声名狼藉的集团鬼混在一起之后，我就同他断绝了往来。

4 . In the company, we allow the embezzlement in no way, did not allow has the clique or the small dot production in the company.
在公司内部，我们决不容许贪污，不容许在公司内有派系或小圈圈产生。

5 . But if Datang and the emerging mainland clique make his life difficult, I could easily see him accepting a buy-out in the next few months.
但如果大唐和大陆同僚让其处境艰难，我敢说，他几个月后将接受合同买断。