minority的词典解释

1. 少数，少数人，占少数，小部分
2. 少数派，少数群（体），少数党，成为少数派，少数信仰不同的人
3. 少数民族
4. 【律】未成年（时期），未成年身份，未到法定成年期
5. 较少票数，少数票
6. 唯一持不同意见者，唯一投此票者

1. 少数的
2. 属于少数派的

1. a group of people who differ racially or politically from a larger group of which it is a part
2. being or relating to the smaller in number of two parts;

   "when the vote was taken they were in the minority"
   "he held a minority position"
   

3. any age prior to the legal age

1.少数; 少数派
If you talk about aminority 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 tinyminority of working mothers...
当地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 smallminority.
这些孩子只是很少的一部分。

2.少数民族；少数群体
Aminority 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。

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

• minority government少数党
• 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

他是与会者当中唯一的少数民族代表。

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。