Claque : a group of persons hired to applaud at a performance .
捧场者：演出时雇来鼓掌的一帮人。
Are those your friends ? You brought along a claque ?
他们是你的朋友吗？你有支持者
On a visit to time inc. 's new-media facility he answered questions from a collection of magazine editors as if by rote but on his way out he asked to see the internet servers and spent 45 minutes grilling the claque of awed techies there .
