coterie
英 [ˈkəʊtəri]
美 [ˈkoʊtəri]
n. (志趣相同、合伙做事而排外的)小圈子,小集团
BNC.22254 / COCA.23134
牛津词典
noun
- (志趣相同、合伙做事而排外的)小圈子,小集团
a small group of people who have the same interests and do things together but do not like to include others
柯林斯词典
- N-COUNT-COLL (志趣相投而排外的)小集团,小圈子
Acoterie ofa particular kind is a small group of people who are close friends or have a common interest, and who do not want other people to join them.- The songs he recorded were written by a small coterie of dedicated writers.
他录制的这些歌是由几名酷爱音乐的作曲家谱写的。
- The songs he recorded were written by a small coterie of dedicated writers.
英英释义
noun
- an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose
双语例句
- Helen won't bowl with us; she has her own coterie of bowling friends.
海伦将不与我们一起滚球;她有她自己的保龄球伙伴朋友。 - Over the years he has gathered around him a coterie of powerful businessman.
多年来他身边聚集了一小搓有权势的商人。 - Seventy-five years after Benjamin Graham and David Dodd wrote Security Analysis, a growing coterie of modern-day value investors remain deeply indebted to them.
本杰明•格雷厄姆和大卫•多德写成《证券分析》已经七十五个春秋了,摩登时代的价值投者家们不断加入其同仁的行列,至今仍对他们感激涕零。 - To jump outside the limited coterie of big-name directors and look toward international co-productions is a good thing, he added.
跳出大导演的小圈子,把目光投向国际合拍片,实际上是件好事,他说。 - Colleagues at the IMF say Lagarde has already delivered a change of tone; whereas Strauss-Kahn used to issue orders and rely on a narrow coterie of advisers, Lagarde has taken pains to consult a wide group of people.
拉加德在imf的新同事们说,这位新总裁已经展现出了不同的风格;斯特劳斯-卡恩通常直接下命令、并依赖亲信圈的意见,而拉加德则不厌其烦地咨询许多人。 - Critics fear that two aspects in particular could hand Google too much power, while also leaving a coterie of publishers and authors with disproportionate sway over setting prices for digital works, to the detriment of readers.
批评人士尤其担心在两方面可能给了谷歌太多权利,同时也在数字著作定价方面留给了出版商和作者群不成比例的影响力,会有损读者利益。 - Shanghai Chaos Investing Co is one of a coterie of funds exercising a growing impact on global metals markets, where the price of everything from aluminium drinks cans to lead batteries is set.
上海混沌投资公司是少数对全球金属市场发挥越来越大影响的基金之一,从铝制饮料罐到铅电池等各种金属的价格都在这个市场确定。 - It represents the feature of Juvenile Student and Chinese Monthly, elucidates the same objective of Kaiming's coterie to literature and education by analyzing the content and their writers.
论述了《中学生》、《国文月刊》为代表的开明杂志的特色,通过开明杂志撰稿作者群、撰稿内容的条分缕析,阐发了开明同人对文学、教育两者并重的旨趣。 - The songs he recorded were written by a small coterie of dedicated writers.
他录制的这些歌是由几名酷爱音乐的作曲家谱写的。 - But do they need to pander to the irrational wishes and fantasies of this coterie?
但他们需要迎合非理性的愿望和幻想吗?