minority基本解释
n.少数；少数民族；未成年
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名词复数: minorities
n.少数；少数民族；未成年
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名词复数: minorities
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...
当地政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。
1. be in a minority of one : 得不到任何人的支持；
2. be in the minority : 占少数；
The long minority of Henry the Sixth who was a boy..at his father's death.
出自：J. R. Green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。
