The name is known to only a small coterie of collectors. 这个名字只有收藏家的小圈子才知道。
Mary and her coterie gave a party to which we were not invited. 玛利和她的圈内朋友举行派对,我们没被邀请。
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。
coterie
[ noun ] an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose <noun.group>
Coterie \Co`te*rie"\ (k?`te-r?"; 277), n. [F., prob. from OF. coterie servile tenure, fr. colier cotter; of German origin. See 1st {Cot}.] A set or circle of persons who meet familiarly, as for social, literary, or other purposes; a clique. ``The queen of your coterie.'' --Thackeray.
Bush talked with reporters as he stood outside his seaside vacation home with a coterie of advisers who flew up from Washington.
In the 1960s she moved to New York, joining pop artist Andy Warhol's coterie of what he called "superstars."
The group that went on after Los Pleneros, the intense four-man Colombian ensemble, Impacto Vallenato, had an even more pronounced coterie of followers who incessantly called out requests.
This would at least throw some light on the cosy coterie of officials and ministers. These institutional changes are important because the persistent failure of British policies is only partly the failure of a country.
The National Front has built its platform on pledges of honest, capable government, accusing Gandhi of presiding over a coterie of corruption and inefficiency.
The president has declined to curb the commercial ambitions of his children or his small coterie of ethnic Chinese business associates.
He began exhibiting with what was known as the London Group of artists in 1932 and emerged as a leader of another coterie called the Objective Abstractions Group.
"For me it was a rite of passage." Meanwhile, the bank itself ran up losses estimated as high as $15 billion, with extensive outstanding but inactive loans to a coterie of wealthy Middle Eastern businessmen.
Only Ed Meese is left from the original Reaganite coterie, which explains the increasingly neurotic attacks on him.