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派系;小集团
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.
例句
Anna Ford recently hit out at the male clique which she believes holds back women in television.
最近，安娜·福特对她认为阻碍了女性在电视业发展的男性集团进行了猛烈抨击。