minority
[NOUN]
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。
NOUN. 名词
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。
PHRASE. 习语
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