minority

minority音标

英 [maɪˈnɒrəti]

美 [maɪˈnɔ:rəti]

minority基本释义

n.少数；少数民族；未成年

minority用法及例句

n.(名词)

少数，少数人，占少数，小部分

少数派，少数群（体），少数*，成为少数派，少数信仰不同的人

少数民族

【律】未成年（时期），未成年身份，未到法定成年期

较少票数，少数票

唯一持不同意见者，唯一投此票者

adj.(形容词)

少数的

属于少数派的

n.(名词)

[S]少数,小部分 the smaller number or part; less than half

[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.

noun

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

e.g. when the vote was taken they were in the minorityhe held a minority position

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

3. any age prior to the legal age

Synonym: nonage

1. 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.

e.g. 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。e.g. These children are only a small minority.这些孩子只是很少的一部分。

2. 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.

e.g. ...the region's ethnic minorities...这个地区的少数民族e.g. 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。

常用例句

用作名词(n.)

是少数派(尤指在投票的两部分人中)be in the smaller of especially two voting groups

1. be in a minority of one : 得不到任何人的支持；

2. be in the minority : 占少数；

用作名词(n.)

Only a minority of British households do〔does〕not have a car.英国只有少数家庭没有汽车。

The minority is subordinate to the majority.少数服从多数。

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。

The interests of the minorities should be protected.少数民族的利益应该得到保护。

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。

The long minority of Henry the Sixth who was a boy..at his father's death.

出自：J. R. Green

词语用法

常见错误

n.(名词)

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。

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。

minority在句中可用作定语。

n.(名词)

他是与会者当中唯一的少数民族代表。

误 He was the only minority who attended the meeting.

正 He was the only minority representative who attended the meeting.

析 minority作“少数民族”解时不能指某少数民族中的具体的人。

近义词

反义词

临近词

smaller较小的

less更少的

component零部件；元件...

pupilage学生的身份

childhood童年

sector部门

interest group利益集团

half一半

juvenility年轻

part部分

underground地下的

lesser较少的

ethnic group同种同文化之民族...

section部分

faction内讧

side边

contingent代表团

youth青年时期

sectional各部分组成的...

boyhood少年时代

pressure压强

handful一把

alternative两者择一的

adolescence青春期（一般指13～16...

than比

juniority年少后辈

infancy婴儿期

ethnic种族的

girlhood少女时期

group群

element要素

marginal边际的

subgroup子群

nonage未成年

majority

minority game

minority codon

minority town

Minsk

minority group

minor

minority arts

minority area

minority rule

minority view

minority right

minority army

相关列句

Among the minority of studies that have reported advantages of single-sex schooling, virtually all of them were studies of girls.(在指出单性别学校教育优势的少数研究中，几乎所有的研究都是针对女孩的。)

MESBIC's are now emerging as increasingly important financing sources for minority enterprises.(MESBIC现在正成为少数民族企业越来越重要的融资来源。)

No longer is the possession of information confined to a privileged minority.(信息的掌握不再*限于享有特权的少数人。)

In conducting research on cultural and ethnic minority issues, investigators distinguish between the emic approach and the etic approach.("在对文化和少数民族问题进行研究时，研究者区分了主位法和客位法。)

Hawaii's native minority is demanding a greater degree of sovereignty over its own affairs.(夏威夷的土著少数民族要求对自己的事务拥有更大程度的主权。)

Only a tiny minority hold such extreme views.(只有极少数人持这样极端的观点。)

It was a salutary experience to be in the minority.(做少数派是种磨练人的经历。)

A minority enterprise that secures the business of one large corporate customer often runs the danger of becoming dependent.(一个少数民族企业如果要保证一个大企业客户的业务，往往会面临变得依赖的危险。)

The jail's female and minority populations have both ballooned in recent years.(该监狱的女性及少数民族犯人在近几年都猛增了。)

Even years after the program was implemented, minority business receipts were not quite two percent of the national economy's total receipts.(即使在该计划实施数年后，少数民族企业的收入还不到国民经济总收入的2%。)