英 [maɪˈnɒrəti] 美 [maɪˈnɔːrəti]
n. 少数，少数派；少数民族，少数群体；未成年时期，未成年身份；唯一持不同意见者；（议会）少数党得（或投）的票
adj. 少数的；少数民族的
复数minorities
minority /maɪˈnɒrɪtɪ, mɪ-/ CET4 TEM4
单数型名词 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. 少数
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们。
习语 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. 占少数
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。
可数名词 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. 少数民族; 信仰其他宗教的少数派
...the region's ethnic minorities.
…这个地区的少数民族。
a group of people who differ racially or politically from a larger group of which it is a part
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
any age prior to the legal age
同义词： nonage
... , minimize, minimum, minor次要的 , minority少数 ), minus减 ...
在经济统计数字里,这些人都是属于 少数人( MINORITY ),属于在我们宏观经济政策里,很容易被忽略的一群.
... provocative : 刺激的，挑拨的 minority : 少数派的 simmer : 炖；（危机等）即将爆发 ...
只有心底善良坦诚的人才能成为好人；与其他运动(Sports)比拟固然目下仍属小众(Minority)，苦想没盼头，苦干有奔头。但玩家数量在一向增加。
少数民族；少数派；未成年
Only a tiny minority hold such extreme views.
只有极少数人持这样极端的观点。
It was a salutary experience to be in the minority.
做少数派是种磨练人的经历。
A minority of officers were prepared to bend the rules.
少数官员准备篡改规则。
The completion rate is lower than for almost any other wealthy country, and worst for poor and minority students.
VOA : special.2009.09.10
I don't think that's the case because individually, the minority's value is just the same as the individual of the majority.
我认为事实并非如此，因为,少数人当中，每个个体的价值,和多数人的个体价值是一样的。
公正课程节选 : 耶鲁公开课
And obesity is a huge problem in the United States, especially in the African american community and other minority communities.
在美国,肥胖症是一个严重的问题,尤其在非裔美国人和,其它少数民族群体中
关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选 : 耶鲁公开课
So I've never felt like a minority because,as you know, minorities are never supposed to say anything unkind about one another."
VOA : special.2010.08.08
Female and minority students would face the most harm,it says, as they are more likely to attend career colleges.
VOA : special.2010.07.29
The noisy minority of the public is clamoring for the scalps of the perpetrators.
London has become the first region where white British people have become a minority.
Thousands of people, mainly members of the stateless Rohingya Muslim minority, fled their homes and remain displaced.