Minority
[maɪ'nɒrɪtɪ;mɪ-] or [maɪ'nɔrəti]
解释:
(noun.) 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'.
(noun.) a group of people who differ racially or politically from a larger group of which it is a part.
(noun.) any age prior to the legal age.
安德烈整理--From WordNet
解释:
(a. & n.) The state of being a minor, or under age.
(a. & n.) State of being less or small.
(a. & n.) The smaller number; -- opposed to majority; as, the minority must be ruled by the majority.
手打:洛雷塔
同义词及近义词：
n. [1]. Nonage, pupilage.[2]. Smaller number.
手打:奥利
例句:
- So we who are democrats need not believe that the people are necessarily right in their choice: some of us are always in the minority, and not a little proud of the distinction. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- Brahminism had long since ousted Buddhism from India, but the converts to Islam were still but a small ruling minority in the land. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- He set out to make the campaign a battle between the Progressives and the Democrats--the old discredited Republicans fell back into a rather dead conservative minority. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- The hard-headed man looked dubiously round, but finding himself in a minority, assumed a compassionate air and said no more. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- Their parents had been able to support them during their minority, and to give them good educations, but not to maintain them afterwards. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
- Knowledge flared up, and as it flared it ceased to be the privilege of a favoured minority. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- The contest was really between Mr. Breckinridge and Mr. Lincoln; between minority rule and rule by the majority. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
- The protesting minority were forgotten in the throng which abjured and came; and the audience was almost as brilliant as the show. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
- The well-known Minority Report of the Poor Law Commission bears the Webb signature most conspicuously. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- The Minority Report of the English Poor Law Commission has striking merits and defects, but for our purposes it inheres too deeply in British conditions. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- The _Miocene_ (with living species still in a minority) was the great age of mountain building, and the general temperature was falling. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- So far they have swayed only a minority of exceptional people. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- The two party system chokes off the cry of a minority--perhaps the best way there is of precipitating an explosion. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- But you're in a pitiful little minority: you've got no centre, no competition, no audience. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
- The waste, and not the disincumbrance of the estate, was the common effect of a long minority. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- In reality we are witnessing a change of conscience, initiated by cranks and fanatics, sustained for a long time by minorities, which has at last infected the mass of the people. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- For every country is a mass of minorities which should find a voice in public affairs. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
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