cliques
n. <貶>小集團,小圈子,派系( clique的名詞複數 )
If you describe a group of people as a clique, you mean that they spend a lot of time together and seem unfriendly towards people who are not in the group.
Anna Ford recently hit out at the male clique which she believes holds back women in television.
最近,安娜·福特對她認為阻礙了女性在電視業發展的男性集團進行了猛烈抨擊。
All traitorous persons and cliques came to no good end.
所有的叛徒及叛徒集團都沒好下場.
They formed cliques and carried arms expansion and war preparations.
他們拉幫結派,擴軍備戰.