n.少數；少數民族；未成年
名詞復數: minorities
/">成人英語成人高考專升本單詞大全n.(名詞)少數，少數人，占少數，小部分
少數派，少數群（體），少數黨，成為少數派，少數信仰不同的人
少數民族
【律】未成年（時期），未成年身份，未到法定成年期
較少票數，少數票
唯一持不同意見者，唯一投此票者
adj.(形容詞)少數的
屬于少數派的
n.(名詞)[S]少數,小部分 the smaller number or part; less than half
[C]少數民族,少數信仰不同的人 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 minority
he 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. 少數; 少數派
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...
當地政府提供的保育服務只有少數上班族母親才能夠享受到。
e.g. These children are only a small minority.
這些孩子只是很少的一部分。
2. 少數民族；少數群體
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...
這個地區的少數民族
e.g. Students have called for greater numbers of women and minorities on the faculty...
學生要求聘請更多女教師和少數民族族裔的老師。
minority作“少數,小部分”解時,是集合名詞,常用于單數形式。minority在句中作主語時,其謂語動詞可用單數形式,也可用復數形式。
minority作“少數民族”解時是可數集合名詞,不能用來指少數民族中的某一個人,而指的是整個民族,因此minorities表示的是“幾種少數民族”,而不是某一少數民族中的幾個人。
minority在句中可用作定語。
n.(名詞)他是與會者當中唯一的少數民族代表。誤
He was the only minority who attended the meeting.正
He was the only minority representative who attended the meeting.析
minority作“少數民族”解時不能指某少數民族中的具體的人。以上就是本站詳細整理的詞語minority是什么意思的翻譯解釋，供大家參考一下。
Among the minority of studies that have reported advantages of single-sex schooling, virtually all of them were studies of girls.(在指出單性別學校教育優勢的少數研究中，幾乎所有的研究都是針對女孩的。)
MESBIC's are now emerging as increasingly important financing sources for minority enterprises.(MESBIC現在正成為少數民族企業越來越重要的融資來源。)
No longer is the possession of information confined to a privileged minority.(信息的掌握不再局限于享有特權的少數人。)
In conducting research on cultural and ethnic minority issues, investigators distinguish between the emic approach and the etic approach.("在對文化和少數民族問題進行研究時，研究者區分了主位法和客位法。)
Hawaii's native minority is demanding a greater degree of sovereignty over its own affairs.(夏威夷的土著少數民族要求對自己的事務擁有更大程度的主權。)
Only a tiny minority hold such extreme views.(只有極少數人持這樣極端的觀點。)
It was a salutary experience to be in the minority.(做少數派是種磨練人的經歷。)
A minority enterprise that secures the business of one large corporate customer often runs the danger of becoming dependent.(一個少數民族企業如果要保證一個大企業客戶的業務，往往會面臨變得依賴的危險。)
The jail's female and minority populations have both ballooned in recent years.(該監獄的女性及少數民族犯人在近幾年都猛增了。)
Even years after the program was implemented, minority business receipts were not quite two percent of the national economy's total receipts.(即使在該計劃實施數年后，少數民族企業的收入還不到國民經濟總收入的2%。)
用作名詞(n.)
是少數派(尤指在投票的兩部分人中)be in the smaller of especially two voting groups1. be in a minority of one : 得不到任何人的支持；
2. be in the minority : 占少數；
用作名詞(n.)
Only a minority of British households do〔does〕not have a car.The long minority of Henry the Sixth who was a boy..at his father's death.