Majority
[mə'dʒɒrɪtɪ] or [mə'dʒɔrəti]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) the property resulting from being or relating to the greater in number of two parts; the main part; 'the majority of his customers prefer it'; 'the bulk of the work is finished'.
(noun.) (elections) more than half of the votes.
(noun.) the age at which persons are considered competent to manage their own affairs.
海伦娜編輯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The quality or condition of being major or greater; superiority.
(n.) The military rank of a major.
(n.) The condition of being of full age, or authorized by law to manage one's own affairs.
(n.) The greater number; more than half; as, a majority of mankind; a majority of the votes cast.
(n.) Ancestors; ancestry.
(n.) The amount or number by which one aggregate exceeds all other aggregates with which it is contrasted; especially, the number by which the votes for a successful candidate exceed those for all other candidates; as, he is elected by a majority of five hundred votes. See Plurality.
乔纳森手打
同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. Greater number, more than half.[2]. Manhood, full age.
錄入:斯科特
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Superiority, eldership, priority, bulk, preponderance, seniority
ANT:Inferiority, juniority, minority
錄入:玛格
例句/造句/用法:
- I said the majority. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Are the honorable, the just, the high-minded and compassionate, the majority anywhere in this world? 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- Nay, let me answer for you, that in a few this harsh temper may be found but not in the majority of mankind. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- As he had nothing else than his majority to come into, the event did not make a profound sensation in Barnard's Inn. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- The ephemeral nature of the vast majority of hypotheses and the dange r to progress of accepting an unverified assumption justify the demand for demonstrative e vidence. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- One thing it is to say that all proposals must ultimately win the acceptance of the majority; it is quite another to propose nothing which is not immediately acceptable. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Th e usage is so completely established that by the majority it is simply taken for granted. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- Taken as they ought to be, the majority of the lads and lasses of the West Riding are gentlemen and ladies, every inch of them. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- First, the majority of people in the community have low ideals. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- I do not believe that the majority of the Northern people at that time were in favor of negro suffrage. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- The Western Union Telegraph Company secured a majority of its stock, and Gen. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Now there are days--I suspect the vast majority of them in most of our lives--when we grind out the thing that is stamped upon us. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- The teeth, through negligence and ignorance, receive less attention among the majority of people than any other subject of a personal character. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
- I have given two fair, average specimens of the character of the testimony offered by the majority of the writers who visit this region. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- The vast majority of their drawings represent animals. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- A high note of contempt for democracy was sounded: The soldier and the army, not parliamentary majorities, have welded together the German Empire. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- He longs for majorities. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Representatives who serve some majorities may in reality order the nation about. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
錄入:米歇尔