minority
音标发音
- 英式音标 [maɪ'nɒrɪtɪ; mɪ-maɪ'nɒrətɪ]
- 美式音标 [maɪˈnɔːr.ə.t̬i]
- 国际音标 [mai'nɔrəti, mi-]
- 英式发音
- 美式发音
基本解释
- n.少数；少数民族；未成年
词根记忆
- min(小) + or + ity(名词后缀)→少数
- 来自minor(a.较少的)
- 来自minor(较小的) + ity→少数；少数派
- 来自minor(a.较小的)
- minor(较小的) + ity(名词后缀)→少数
用法辨析
- minority作“少数,小部分”解时,是集合名词,常用于单数形式。minority在句中作主语时,其谓语动词可用单数形式,也可用复数形式。
- minority作“少数民族”解时是可数集合名词,不能用来指少数民族中的某一个人,而指的是整个民族,因此minorities表示的是“几种少数民族”,而不是某一少数民族中的几个人。
- minority在句中可用作定语。
n. (名词)
词组短语
- Minority Report 少数派报告;关键报告;未来报告
- minority language 少数民族语言；少数人的语言；小语种
- minority leader 少数党领袖
- minority stockholders 少数股权股东;少数控股权股东;少数股东;翻译
- The Minority 少数人;少数民族;各少数民族的;少数
短语
英英字典
- (SMALL PART) a smaller number or part
- (PEOPLE) any small group in society that is different from the rest because of their race, religion, or political beliefs, or a person who belongs to such a group
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.