minority

英[maɪ'nɒrəti] 美[maɪ'nɔːrəti]
  • n. 少数;少数民族;未成年
minorities
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星级词汇:
  • minoan adj.克里特文明的n.克里特人
    n. (名词)
    1. 少数,少数人,占少数,小部分
    2. 少数派,少数群(体),少数党,成为少数派,少数信仰不同的人
    3. 少数民族
    4. 【律】未成年(时期),未成年身份,未到法定成年期
    5. 较少票数,少数票
    6. 唯一持不同意见者,唯一投此票者
    adj. (形容词)
    1. 少数的
    2. 属于少数派的
    n. (名词)
    1. [S]少数,小部分 the smaller number or part; less than half
    2. [C]少数民族,少数信仰不同的人 a small part of a population which is different from the rest in race, religion, etc.

英英释义

Noun:
  1. a group of people who differ racially or politically from a larger group of which it is a part

  2. being or relating to the smaller in number of two parts;

    "when the vote was taken they were in the minority"
    "he held a minority position"

  3. any age prior to the legal age

1. A minority of officers were prepared to bend the rules.
少数官员准备篡改规则。

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2. Only a minority of the people supported the Revolution.
只有少数人支持这场革命。

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3. In the past conservatives have been in the minority.
过去保守派一直占少数。

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4. Local authority nursery provision covers only a tiny minority of working mothers.
当地政府提供的保育服务只有少数上班族母亲才能够享受到。

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5. Minority cultures within the United States often raised issues of cross-cultural conflict.
美国的少数民族文化经常引发跨文化冲突问题。

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    用作名词 (n.)
    1. Only a minority of British households do not have a car.
      英国只有少数家庭没有汽车。
    2. A small minority voted against the motion.
      投票反对该提议的人占少数。
    3. The question of which state the minority group should belong to was decided by (a) plebiscite.
      该少数民族应归属哪一州的问题已由公民投票表决。
    4. There are 56 minorities in our country.
      我国有56个少数民族。
    5. The nationality of the minority groups in that country is still at issue.
      在那个国家的少数民族的国籍问题上仍有争论。
    6. He is in his minority.
      他尚未成年。
    用作名词 (n.)
    1. Only a minority of British households do〔does〕not have a car.
      英国只有少数家庭没有汽车。
    2. The minority is subordinate to the majority.
      少数服从多数。
    3. The nation wants peace; only a minority want the war to continue.
      全国想要和平,只有少数人希望战争持续下去。
    4. The interests of the minorities should be protected.
      少数民族的利益应该得到保护。
    5. Three numbers of the committee disagreed with the main report, so they produced a minority report.
      委员会中三名委员不同意该主要报告,因此他们提出一个代表少数人意见的报告。
n. (名词)
  1. minority作“少数,小部分”解时,是集合名词,常用于单数形式。minority在句中作主语时,其谓语动词可用单数形式,也可用复数形式。
  2. minority作“少数民族”解时是可数集合名词,不能用来指少数民族中的某一个人,而指的是整个民族,因此minorities表示的是“几种少数民族”,而不是某一少数民族中的几个人。
  3. minority在句中可用作定语。
用作名词 (n.)
be in a/the minority
    是少数派(尤指在投票的两部分人中)be in the smaller of especially two voting groups