n.(名词)

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

adj.(形容词)

1. 少数的
2. 属于少数派的

n.(名词)

1. [S]少数,小部分 the smaller number or part; less than half
2. [C]少数民族,少数信仰不同的人 a small part of a population which is different from the rest in race, religion, etc.

Noun:

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 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。

Only a minority of British households do not have a car.

英国只有少数家庭没有汽车。

A small minority voted against the motion.

投票反对该提议的人占少数。

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。

There are 56 minorities in our country.

我国有56个少数民族。

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。

He is in his minority.

他尚未成年。

Only a small minority of students is'/are interested in politics these days.

目前，只有极少数同学对政治感兴趣。

minority shareholders in the bank

银行的少数股东

the rights of ethnic'/racial minorities

少数民族 / 族裔的权利

minority languages

少数民族语言

a large German-speaking minority in the east of the country

在国家东部一个人口众多的讲德语的少数民族

(North Amercian English)The school is 95 per cent minority (= 95 per cent of children are not white Americans but from different groups) .

这所学校里95%的学生来自少数族裔。

(North Amercian English)minority neighborhoods (= where no or few white people live)

有色种族聚居区

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。

These children are only a small minority.

这些孩子只是很少的一部分。

...the region's ethnic minorities...

这个地区的少数民族

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。

The soldiers campaigned in the deserts of Iraq.

士兵们在伊拉克的沙漠作战.

She enjoys watching dance , be it ballet , national minority dancing or any other sort of dancing.

芭蕾舞也好,民族舞也好, 随便什么舞她都喜欢看.

A lot of national parks lie in the areas inhabited by minority nationality people.

许多国家公园都位于少数民族聚居的地方.

The minority nationalities account for six per cent of the population.

少数民族占人口的百分之六.

Boys are very much in the minority at the dancing class.

舞蹈班里男生占极少数.

He is in his minority.

他尚未成年.

Such persons are certainly in the minority.

这种人当然占少数.

Those who protested against the president's decision were actually barking at the moon , since they were in a powerless minority.

由于他们属于软弱无力的少数,他们反对总统的决定实际上枉费唇舌.

A minority of children are sexually active before they are in their teens.

少数孩子十几岁前已有性行为.

The minority is subordinate to the majority.

少数服从多数.

The nation wants peace; only a minority want the war to continue.

国家要和平, 只有少数人要战争继续下去.

They are in a decided minority.

他们明显于少数.

The minority should submit to the majority.

少数应服从多数.

Only a minority of British households do not have a car.

英国只有少数家庭没有汽车.

Only a tiny minority hold such extreme views.

只有极少数人持这样极端的观点。

The government seems not to be troubled by its inconsistent policies on minority rights.

政府好像并不觉得其在少数民族权利问题上政策的前后不一有什么不妥。

A minority of officers were prepared to bend the rules.

少数官员准备篡改规则。

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。

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%20government">minority government少数党政府
• minority%20of%20one">be in a minority of one得不到任何人的支持...
• minority%20leader">minority leader少数党领袖
• minority">in the minority处于少数的
• minority%20share">minority share少数股份
• minority">national minority民族性少数民族...
• minority%20codon">minority codon稀少密码子, 调谐密...
• minority%20carrier%20transit%20time%20diode">minority carrier transit time diode少数载流子渡越时间二...
• minority%20shareholders">right of minority shareholders[经] 少数股东的权...
• minority">risky minority冒险着法
• minority%20emitter">minority emitter少数载流子发射极...
• minority%20attack">minority attack小攻击
• minority%20share%20holders">minority share holders[经] "少数股东"...
• minority%20carries">excess minority carries过剩少数载流子...
• minority%20holding">minority holding拥有不足半数股票...
• minority%20carrier%20storage%20effect">minority carrier storage effect少数载流子存储效应...
• minority">ethnic minority少数民族; 少数族群...
• minority">in a minority占少数
• minority">be in a minority占少数
• minority">be in the minority占少数

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

  出自：J. R. Green

n.(名词)

1. minority作“少数,小部分”解时,是集合名词,常用于单数形式。minority在句中作主语时,其谓语动词可用单数形式,也可用复数形式。
2. minority作“少数民族”解时是可数集合名词,不能用来指少数民族中的某一个人,而指的是整个民族,因此minorities表示的是“几种少数民族”,而不是某一少数民族中的几个人。
3. minority在句中可用作定语。

n.(名词)

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。