minority
minority 英 [maɪˈnɒrəti] 美 [maɪˈnɔrəti]
n. 少数民族；少数派
名词复数:minorities
- If you have eight pennies and twelve dimes, the minority of your coins are pennies. The word minority is often used to describe people when their race or religion is shared by less than half of a nation.
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- n. 少数民族；少数派
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1. Only a small minority of students are interested in politics these days.
目前，只有极少数学生对政治感兴趣。
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2. minority shareholders in the bank
银行的小股东
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3. the rights of racial minorities
少数民族的权利
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4. minority languages
少数民族语言
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5. The school is 95 per cent minority .
这所学校里 95% 的学生来自少数族裔。
- minority (n.) 1530s, "condition of being smaller," from Middle French minorité (15c.), or directly from Medieval Latin minoritatem (nominative minoritas), from Latin minor (see minor (adj.)). Meaning "state of being under legal age" is from 1540s; that of "smaller number or part" is from 1736. The meaning "group of people separated from the rest of a community by race, religion, language, etc." is from 1919, originally in an Eastern European context.
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