clubby

1. ADJ-GRADED 排外的;只对圈内人友好的
   If you describe an institution or a group of people as clubby, you mean that all the people in it are friendly with each other and do not welcome other people in.
   1. Politics is clubby, careerist, and cynical...
      政治是排外的，充满野心的，只顾自己不顾他人的。
   2. The British media is in the hands of clubby men.
      英国媒体掌握在一群排外的人手中。

1. Politics is clubby, careerist, and cynical
   政治是排外的，充满野心的，只顾自己不顾他人的。
2. The British media is in the hands of clubby men.
   英国媒体掌握在一群排外的人手中。
3. But to revert to the clubby, monopolistic days of human NYSE market makers would be to throw away two decades of improvement.
   但回复到纽交所人类造市商排他、垄断的交易模式，会让二十年来的进展付之东流。
4. By valuing popularity, organizations may be promoting a certain clubby atmosphere that mimics school culture rather than rewarding merit, the researchers write.
   研究人员写道，如果以受欢迎程度为评判标准，组织可能就会推崇一种类似学校文化的俱乐部气氛，而非任人唯贤。
5. The US Dodd-Frank Act pushes for NDFs to move away from the clubby, phone-brokered market and on to more transparent electronic trading platforms.
   美国的《多德-弗兰克法案》（Dodd-FrankAct）力求推动NDF离开通过电话撮合交易的较封闭市场，转而登陆更加透明的电子交易平台。
6. Outside clubby Japan and Australia, Asian loan markets have tended to be driven by transactions, rather than relationships.
   除了排外的日本和澳大利亚，亚洲贷款市场往往是由交易而非关系驱动的。
7. Some observers question just how long this clubby system can last.
   一些观察人士质疑这种排他性的体系到底能持续多久。
8. The move to electronic trading, led by the Chicago Merc, has made the board of trade's clubby floor-trading world less relevant.
   芝加哥商品交易所进入电子交易市场的举动削弱了交易所圈内交易世界的重要性。
9. They can seem stuffy and clubby or infer a sense of superiority, she says.
   她表示：它们可能会显得乏味、排外，或者暗示着一种优越感。
10. In the Czech Republic many deals are done away from the exchange, on the phone, in the clubby world of brokers.
    在捷克共和国，许多交易不是在交易所进行，而是通过电话，在经纪人圈子中完成的。
11. My rooms looked out on to two quads enclosed by the chapel, the hall and various staircases. ( How easily I slip into this self-congratulatory, clubby mode.)
    我房间的窗外是礼堂、大厅和几组楼梯围起的两块方庭（我是多么容易陷入这种自我祝贺、喜好交际的状态啊）。
12. In other words, there is no demand for feisty females who challenge the clubby atmosphere of cigar-perfumed boardrooms.
    换言之，这些机构不需要个性好强、勇于挑战男性主宰的董事会气氛的女性。
13. This is some story for an organisation that had a clubby history and a reputation for sloppy management, but it may not be enough.
    这是一个拥有会员制历史、以管理松散闻名的组织的部分经历，但或许还不够。

adj

1. befitting or characteristic of those who incline to social exclusiveness and who rebuff the advances of people considered inferior

   Synonym:    clannishcliquishsnobbishsnobby

2. effusively sociable
   1. a clubbish set
   2. we got rather clubby

   Synonym:    clubbish