minority
minority
英[maɪˈnɒrəti]美[maɪˈnɔːrəti]
n.少数，少数民族，未成年；
复数：minorities;
例句
the view of a small but vociferous minority人数少但高声喧嚷者的观点
A minority of children are sexually active before they are in their teens.少数孩子十几岁前已有性行为。
A lot of national parks lie in the areas inhabited by minority nationality people.许多国家公园都位于少数民族聚居的地方。
Only a minority of British households do not have a car.英国只有少数家庭没有汽车。
Li minority children who have no toys play a piglet.缺少玩具的山区黎族儿童把小猪当作宠物.
The minority should submit to the majority.少数应服从多数.
Such persons are certainly in the minority.这种人当然占少数.
Boys are very much in the minority at the dancing class.舞蹈班里男生占极少数.
It consists of an unthreatening minority position.它持有不具威胁性的少数股权。
And that we are basically being the majority oppressing the minority in a different light.少数派发出不同的光芒,而我们就是压迫他们的多数派.
英语六级真题
Open data sharers are still in the minority in many fields.
出自-2017年6月阅读原文( ' , Harvard, for example, boasts a six-year graduation rate for underrepresented minority groups of 98 percent)Christian Vazquez, a first-generation Yale graduate, is another exception, his success story setting him far apart from students such as Nijay.
出自-2015年12月阅读原文Harvard, for example, boasts a six-year graduation rate for underrepresented minority groups of 98 percent.
2015年12月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义
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少数; 少数派
If you talk about a minority of people or things in a larger group, you are referring to a number of them that forms less than half of the larger group, usually much less than half.
例句
Local authority nursery provision covers only a tiny minority of working mothers...当地*府提供的保育服务只有少数上班族母亲才能够享受到。These children are only a small minority.这些孩子只是很少的一部分。N-COUNT
少数民族；少数群体
A minority is a group of people of the same race, culture, or religion who live in a place where most of the people around them are of a different race, culture, or religion.
例句
...the region's ethnic minorities...这个地区的少数民族Students have called for greater numbers of women and minorities on the faculty...学生要求聘请更多女教师和少数民族族裔的老师。英汉词典释义
n.
少数, 小部分
Only a minority of British households do not have a car.英国只有少数家庭没有汽车。少数民族, 少数信仰不同的人
The interests of the minorities should be protected.少数民族的利益应该得到保护。未成年
英英词典释义
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
