第三人称复数：minorities
名词少数; 少数民族; 未成年
名词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. minority的反义词
1. Malaysia's minority ethnic Indians and Chinese have been chafing at an affirmative action program for the Malay majority.
2. You prepare Yi ethnic minority torch shrimp yourself by holding marinated shrimps wrapped in foil paper over fire on plates paved with salt.
3. The first and second month of the lunar calendar is the time of the Sama Festival of the Dong minority people in Guizhou.
4. minority的意思
4. The most outrageous example is Minority Report when it first came out in 2002.
5. Canada's Parliament approved a nonbinding opposition motion on Monday demanding an election next February, a demand the minority Liberal government has already said it will ignore.
6. Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper won reelection with a significantly stronger minority government and called Wednesday for unity in staring down global financial crisis.
7. The regulations allow foreign capital to fund film production companies as minority partners to produce films with their Chinese counterparts.
8. Let me add my voice to the minority chorus that thinks there is nothing wrong with a little newfangled capitalism here.
9. The privatization plan will give minority shareholders opportunities to turn their investment earnings into cash, the statement said.
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10. About one in three Americans is a minority, according to the US Census Bureau.
noun
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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