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The need for a patronised inner coterie: Iraq taught us that magnitude of destruction has to be immense.
需要维护圈内人士：伊拉克让我们了解破坏的程度必然是巨大的。
How humiliating: You tried to send a direct message to a member of your Twitter coterie but couldn't because they quit following your tweets.
多么羞辱：你尝试往你在推客中的小圈子发送一条直接信息但却不能，因为他们不再跟随你的推客。
Lacking any coherent vision for the new Iraq, an often corrupt and incompetent coterie perpetuated many of the mistakes of Mr Bremer's CPA, compounding them with new ones of their own.
对新伊拉克缺乏任何统一的看法，一个通常是腐败和无能的小圈子延续了布雷默的CPA的许多错误，将这些错误和他们自己的新错误混在一起。

So they didn't want one king to arise, and they didn't want a small coterie of leaders to arise.
所以他们不能让一个国王崛起，不能让一个小团体壮大。
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In defecting to HP, she arrived alone, without the usual coterie of trusted assistants.
FORBES: All Carly, all the time
Such suggestions used to be hotly denied by the coterie surrounding Heidar Aliev, now 75.
ECONOMIST: Azerbaijan
Entirely new technologies are foundlings that come into the world unrecognised except by a fanatical coterie.
ECONOMIST: The millennium-bug muddle

a small group of people with shared interests, often one that does not want other people to join them

A coterie of a 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.