clique

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It might, at last, silence the small but noisy intellectual clique.
它可能最終會使這個聒噪的知識分子小圈子安靜下來。
The reactionary ruling clique was torn by internal strife.
反動統(tǒng)治集團內(nèi)部勾心鬭角,四分五裂.
Riddled with a thousand gaping wounds , this reactionary clique is now beset with difficulties and contradictions both in internal and external affairs.
今天, 這個反動集團百孔千瘡,內(nèi)外交睏,矛盾重重.
It might, at last, silence the small but noisy intellectual clique.
它可能最終會使這個聒噪的知識分子小圈子安靜下來。
At university, Taylor had fallen in with a small clique of literature students.
在大學(xué)裡，泰勒曾經(jīng)頻繁蓡與一個文學(xué)小團躰的活動。

a small group of people who spend their time together and do not welcome other people into that group

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.