音标:[mai'nɒriti] ; 柯林斯词典等级:4 级; 牛津三千核心词汇;
n. 少数, 未成年, 少数民族
a. 少数的, 属于少数派的
n. a group of people who differ racially or politically from a larger group of which it is a part
n. being or relating to the smaller in number of two parts
n. any age prior to the legal age
词型变化:名词复数形式 : minorities
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minority的用法和样例:

例句

用作名词(n.)
  1. Only a minority of British households do not have a car.英国只有少数家庭没有汽车。
  2. A small minority voted against the motion.投票反对该提议的人占少数。
  3. The question of which state the minority group should belong to was decided by (a) plebiscite.该少数民族应归属哪一州的问题已由公民投票表决。
  4. There are 56 minorities in our country.我国有56个少数民族。
  5. The nationality of the minority groups in that country is still at issue.在那个国家的少数民族的国籍问题上仍有争论。
  6. He is in his minority.他尚未成年。

常见句型

用作名词(n.)
  1. Only a minority of British households do〔does〕not have a car.英国只有少数家庭没有汽车。
  2. The minority is subordinate to the majority.少数服从多数。
  3. 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。
  4. The interests of the minorities should be protected.少数民族的利益应该得到保护。
  5. 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。

常用短语

用作名词(n.)
be in a/the minority
    是少数派(尤指在投票的两部分人中)be in the smaller of especially two voting groups

词汇搭配

  • minority government少数党政府
  • be in a minority of one得不到任何人的支持...
  • minority leader少数党领袖
  • in the minority处于少数的
  • minority share少数股份
  • national minority民族性少数民族...
  • minority codon稀少密码子, 调谐密...
  • minority carrier transit time diode少数载流子渡越时间二...
  • right of minority shareholders[经] 少数股东的权...
  • risky minority冒险着法
  • minority emitter少数载流子发射极...
  • minority attack小攻击
  • minority share holders[经] "少数股东"...
  • excess minority carries过剩少数载流子...
  • minority holding拥有不足半数股票...
  • minority carrier storage effect少数载流子存储效应...
  • ethnic minority少数民族; 少数族群...
  • in a minority占少数
  • be in a minority占少数
  • be in the minority占少数

经典引文

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

    出自:J. R. Green
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