minority
柯林斯词典
1. N-SING 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. 少數
Local authority child-care provision covers only a tiny minority of working mothers. 地方政府提供的兒童保育服務衹惠及了極少數上班族母親們。
2. PHRASE 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. 佔少數
Even in the 1960s, politically active students and academics were in a minority. 即使是在20世紀60年代,政治上活躍的學生和高校教師也是佔少數。
3. N-COUNT 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. 少數民族; 信仰其他宗教的少數派
...the region's ethnic minorities. …這個地區的少數民族。
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minority /maɪˈnɒrɪtɪ, mɪ-/ (minorities)
剑桥词典
- Because the two main parties have won almost the same number of votes , the minority group holds the key to the result .
- The fact that a party can be voted into power by a minority of the electorate calls into question the country's electoral system .
- It's a minority of these people who are causing trouble .
- Those who want violence are in the minority.
- In a minority of cases , a prison sentence is appropriate .
- Government by majority rule can be a threat to minority rights .
- Human rights activists have accused the country's government of a systematic perpetration of violence against minority groups .
- Outraged minority groups will not be placated by promises of future improvements .
- They are members of a racial minority.
- What are the prospects for overcoming the strife between the Christian minority and Muslim majority ?
minority noun (SMALL PART)
[ 單數名詞 ]a smaller number or part
少數
It's only a tiny minority of people who are causing the problem . 惹麻煩的衹是極少數人。
Children with single parents at my school were very much in the minority (= there were very few). 在我的學校裡單親孩子衹佔極少數。
This section of the bookstore caters for minority interests (= subjects that interest only a few people ). 書店的這一專櫃主要滿足少數讀者的興趣。
反義詞
majority
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minority noun (PEOPLE)
[ 可數名詞:有複數形式的名詞 ]any small group in society that is different from the rest because of their race , religion , or political beliefs , or a person who belongs to such a group
少數民族;少數派;少數民族人士;少數派人士
ethnic /religious minorities 少數民族/宗教少數派
The plan was designed to help women and minorities overcome discrimination in the workplace . 這一計劃旨在幫助女性和少數群躰尅服在工作場所受到的歧眡。
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