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old-boy network

/ohld-boi/US // ˈoʊldˈbɔɪ //

老男孩网络,老男孩网,老男孩的网络,老友记

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an exclusive network that links members of a profession, social class, or organization or the alumni of a particular school through which the individuals assist one another in business, politics, etc.

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Examples

  • So here I am in my requisite Lululemon pants, grunting along to an old hip-hop song at a most ungodly hour.

  • In the 90s, it kept gay men out of leadership roles in the Boy Scouts of America.

  • It would became one of the first great mysteries in the United States of America, as it was only then 23 years old.

  • To borrow an old right-wing talking point, these people are angry no matter what we do.

  • Almost all of the network and cable news channels said that they would not be showing the cartoons either.

  • Davy looked around and saw an old man coming toward them across the lawn.

  • A little boy of four was moved to passionate grief at the sight of a dead dog taken from a pond.

  • His wife stood smiling and waving, the boys shouting, as he disappeared in the old rockaway down the sandy road.

  • Old Mrs. Wurzel and the buxom but not too well-favoured heiress of the house of Grains were at the head of the table.

  • You see, I'd always thought of him as the boy whom Great-aunt Lucia described having seen.