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A clique is a small group of people who stick tightly together and keep others out. They share jokes, plans, and power, and if you are not in, you feel it. The word is almost never a compliment: it says the group thinks it is special, and that this is unfair or .
A clique is a small group of people who stick tightly together and keep others outclique 是一小群緊密黏在一起、把別人排除在外的人 They share jokes, plans, and power他們共享笑話、計畫、和權力 and if you are not in, you feel it如果你不在裡面你會感覺得到 The word is almost never a compliment這個字幾乎從來不是稱讚 it says the group thinks it is special它暗示這個小圈子自認特別 and that this is unfair or unkind而且這樣做並不公平或不友善
You hear it about school friend groups, office in-crowds, clubs, and sometimes a little circle inside a party or a church. It is a little formal on the page, but people do say it in speech when they are .
You hear it about school friend groups, office in-crowds, clubs, and sometimes a little circle inside a party or a church你會聽到這個字用在學校裡的朋友圈、辦公室裡的小團體、社團、有時候是政黨或教會裡的小圈子 It is a little formal on the page這個字寫在紙上有點正式 but people do say it in speech when they are annoyed但人們生氣的時候在口語裡也會這樣說
Though actually a close group of friends is not automatically a clique — friends can be warm and still open. Clique is the closed kind, the “us, not you” kind.
Though actually不過事實上 a close group of friends is not automatically a clique一群感情很好的朋友不代表就是 clique friends can be warm and still open朋友可以很親近同時還是對外開放的 Clique is the closed kind, the "us, not you" kindclique 指的是封閉的那種是「我們、不是你」的那種
In British English the usual sound is like “kleek”; some American speakers say it more like “click”. You will also meet the adjective for a place full of such groups.
In British English the usual sound is like "kleek"英式英文一般唸法像 kleek some American speakers say it more like "click"有些美式英文使用者則唸得比較像 click You will also meet the adjective cliquey for a place full of such groups你也會遇到形容詞 cliquey用來形容一個充滿這種小圈圈的地方
組成Borrowed from French clique. The French word is thought to have started as a sound-word, like a click or a clack. In French it was probably mixed with claque — a hired group paid to clap in a theatre — though that mixing may have happened in French, not later in English.
原始詞典資料8 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
cliquenoun/kliːk/
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A small, exclusive group of individuals, usually according to lifestyle or social status; a cabal.
- This school used to be really friendly, but now everyone keeps to their own cliques.
- There had been talk of some disagreement about a picture, but in Sir Maxwell's experience, artists frequently disagreed about pictures, with no more consequences than a little cold-shouldering or the formation of a clique.
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graph-theorymathematicssciencesA subgraph isomorphic to a complete graph.
- The problem of finding the largest clique in an arbitrary graph is NP-complete.
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A group of related web sites that link to each other, like a webring but with exclusive membership determined by the clique owner.
- Does anyone know what an internet clique is/does? I came across a few and am thoroughly confused.
- even though we're not "regulars" anymore...*sniffle*...we still can't forget the NG...i always tell new fans about it...(people who join my clique, etc...)...and besides...i owe the NG a LOT...itz where i met my best friend...
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A shortened form of the Skeleton Clique, the fan base of the Twenty One Pilots.
- The Skeleton Clique, often referred to as just 'the clique,' is what members of the Twenty One Pilots fandom have dubbed themselves.
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historicalAn informal faction in the Republic of China led by one or more warlords exercising regional control through local armed forces (particularly during the Warlord Era); a regional junta.
- In the South, too, due either to direct or indirect machinations by imperialism, there mushroomed many cliques and factions which fought against one another; in the provinces, small cliques and factions within big ones were also struggling against one another.
- Within the military, the Kwangsi clique of Li Tsung-jen and Pai Ch’ung-hsi were openly opposed to Chiang’s policies; while Ho Ying-ch’in and others were ambivalent.
cliqueverb/kliːk/
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To associate together in a clannish way; to act with others secretly to gain a desired end; to plot.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。