coterie
美音:
[´kəutərı
]英音:
[´kəutərı
]n.同行,圈内人,伙伴
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coterie
/'kəʊtərɪ; `kotərɪ/
n [CGp] (often derog 常作贬义) small group of people with shared activities, interests, tastes, etc, esp one that tends to be exclusive (由有共同的活动、兴趣、爱好等人组成的)小圈子, (尤指排外的)小集团
*a literary coterie 一帮文人.
coterie
n[C]formal[
Date: 1700-1800;
Language: French;Origin:Old French,
'group of farmers renting land', from an unrecorded
Old French cotier
'someone who lives in a cottage, farmer', from
Medieval Latin cotarius, from
English cot;
COTTAGE]
a small group of people who enjoy doing the same things together, and do not like including others
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1. Helen won´t bowl with us; she has her own coterie of bowling friends. 海伦不会跟我们打保龄球;她自己有一群打保龄球的朋友。
2. Helen won´t bowl with us; she has her own coterie of bowling friends. 海伦不会跟我们打保龄球;她自己有一群打保龄球的朋友。
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