Clique

(noun.) an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose.

达伦编辑

• Fascinated as by a basilisk with three heads, I could not leave this clique; the ground near them seemed to hold my feet. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• The isolation and exclusiveness of a gang or clique brings its antisocial spirit into relief. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Don't the very greatest ladies of all talk about that small clique of persons to whom they belong? 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Gangs are marked by fraternal feeling, and narrow cliques by intense loyalty to their own codes. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• They could enjoy life with their cliques as well--passengers invariably divide up into cliques, on all ships. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Only when they were badly frightened would governing cliques or parties desist from some nefarious policy and heed the common good. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

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