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Minority

英式发音:[maɪ'nɒrɪtɪ;mɪ-] or [maɪ'nɔrəti] 美式发音

    (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.

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Minority

双语例句


  • 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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