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minority n.少数；少数民族；未成年 (1) 英国只有少数家庭没有汽车。(2) 投票反对该提议的人占少数。(3) 该少数民族应归属哪一州的问题已由公民投票表决。(4) 我国有56个少数民族。(5) 在那个国家的少数民族的国籍问题上仍有争论。 If you have red hair, you are in the minority as most people have blonde or brown hair. Because white people of European descent make up the majority of the population in the U.S., pundits refer to the minority vote when they talk about the political candidates that non-whites prefer in political elections. Majority is the opposite of minority.

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英 [maɪ'nɒrəti] 美 [maɪ'nɔːrəti] (1) Only a minority of British households do not have a car.(2) A small minority voted against the motion.(3) The question of which state the minority group should belong to was decided by (a) plebiscite.(4) There are 56 minorities in our country.(5) The nationality of the minority groups in that country is still at issue. If you have eight pennies and twelve dimes, the minority of your coins are pennies. The word minority is often used to describe people when their race or religion is shared by less than half of a nation. 1[N-SING 单数名词]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.   [oft N of n]  [usu v-link PHR]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。These children are only a small minority.这些孩子只是很少的一部分。...minority shareholders.少数股东If people are in a minority or in the minority, they belong to a group of people or things that form less than half of a larger group.属于少数派；占少数Even in the 1960s, politically active students and academics were in a minority...即使在20世纪60年代，热衷于政治的学生与大学教师也是少数。In the past conservatives have been in the minority.过去保守派一直占少数。2[N-COUNT 可数名词]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. ...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。A final settlement must respect minority rights.最终的解决方案必须尊重少数群体的权利。

英语单词	minority
英美音标	英 [maɪ'nɒrəti] 美 [maɪ'nɔːrəti]
中文释义	n.少数；少数民族；未成年
英语例句	(1) Only a minority of British households do not have a car. (2) A small minority voted against the motion. (3) The question of which state the minority group should belong to was decided by (a) plebiscite. (4) There are 56 minorities in our country. (5) The nationality of the minority groups in that country is still at issue.
中文例句	(1) 英国只有少数家庭没有汽车。 (2) 投票反对该提议的人占少数。 (3) 该少数民族应归属哪一州的问题已由公民投票表决。 (4) 我国有56个少数民族。 (5) 在那个国家的少数民族的国籍问题上仍有争论。
vocabulary简明	If you have eight pennies and twelve dimes, the minority of your coins are pennies. The word minority is often used to describe people when their race or religion is shared by less than half of a nation.
vocabulary扩展	If you have red hair, you are in the minority as most people have blonde or brown hair. Because white people of European descent make up the majority of the population in the U.S., pundits refer to the minority vote when they talk about the political candidates that non-whites prefer in political elections. Majority is the opposite of minority.
柯林斯解释	1 [N-SING 单数名词]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. [oft N of n] [usu v-link PHR] 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。 These children are only a small minority. 这些孩子只是很少的一部分。 ...minority shareholders. 少数股东 If people are in a minority or in the minority, they belong to a group of people or things that form less than half of a larger group.属于少数派；占少数 Even in the 1960s, politically active students and academics were in a minority... 即使在20世纪60年代，热衷于政治的学生与大学教师也是少数。 In the past conservatives have been in the minority. 过去保守派一直占少数。 2 [N-COUNT 可数名词]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. ...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。 A final settlement must respect minority rights. 最终的解决方案必须尊重少数群体的权利。

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