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新东方-柯林斯雅思备考词典

minority

英  [mɪˈnɒrɪti]
    
美  [-ˈnɔːr-]

[NOUN]

    NOUN. 名词

  • minorities

    1. [SING 单数型名词] 少数

    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.

    双语例句

    例：

    Local authority child-care provision covers only a tiny minority of working mothers.

    地方政府提供的儿童保育服务只惠及了极少数上班族母亲。

    例：

    These children are only a small minority.

    这些孩子只是极少数。

    2. [C 可数名词] 少数民族 , 信仰其他宗教的少数派

    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.

    双语例句

    例：

    the region's ethnic minorities.

    这个地区的少数民族。

    例：

    Students have called for greater numbers of women and minorities on the faculty.

    学生们呼吁聘请更多女教师和少数民族教师。

    PHRASE. 习语

  • in a minority , in the minority

    1. 占少数

    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.

    双语例句

    例：

    Even in the 1960s, politically active students and academics were in a minority.

    即使是在20世纪60年代，政治上活跃的学生和高校教师也是占少数。

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