1.[singspv]少数；少数派；少数人the smaller part of a group; less than half of the people or things in a large group
Only a small minority of students is/are interested in politics these days.目前，只有极少数学生对政治感兴趣。
minority shareholders in the bank银行的少数股东
2.[c]少数派；少数民族；少数群体a small group within a community or country that is different because of race, religion, language, etc.
the rights of ethnic/racial minorities少数民族╱族裔的权利
minority languages少数民族语言
a large German-speaking minority in the east of the country在国家东部一个人口众多的讲德语的少数民族
The school is 95 per cent minority(= 95 per cent of children are not white Americans but from different groups) .这所学校里 95% 的学生来自少数族裔。
minority neighborhoods(= where no or few white people live)有色种族聚居区
3.[u]未成年the state of being under the age at which you are legally an adult
Yanbian one of the state and national economic development compared to other ethnic minority areas, and always among the best.
其中延边州国民经济发展与全国其它少数民族地区相比，始终名列前茅。
It will also surely be harder for the Murdochs, only a minority shareholder in News Corp, to run the company as a family fief.
对于只是新闻集团小股东的默多克来说，运营这个像家族封底一样的公司无疑会更加困难。
"Imagine the weakness" of a climate change deal imposed on an unhappy minority, he said (rightly).
他说：“想想那些气候议案的不当之处”被强加在一肚子怨气的少数国家身上吧。
With the exception of ethnic minority parties, only political parties receiving at least 5% of the total national vote can enter Sejm.
除了少数民族政党，只有政党获得全体选票5%以上才能加入下议院。
So we're talking about something that a significant minority of partnered women does at least several times a year.
所以伴侣女性中一年内做至少好几次的也并不在少数。
The company, which is still minority-owned by Pabst, has undertaken three rounds of financing, and is set to turn a profit in 2011.
NarragansettBrewing进行了三轮融资，计划在2011年实现盈利。Pabst目前仍拥有该公司的少数股权。
In each case, he would stand out from his neighbors. In each case, he would be a minority.
在各方面他都与其希腊邻居不一样，他就应该是少数民族。
Most of the boat people were Rohingyas, members of a Muslim minority, many of whom had already fled Myanmar once, for Bangladesh.
船民中大多数都是洛兴亚人——穆斯林的一支少数部族。他们其中很多人曾经逃离缅甸，前往孟加拉。
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said he did not expect to have to defend religious freedom on the floor of the U. S. Senate.
参议院少数党领袖米奇·麦康奈尔说，他没有料到不得不在参议院捍卫宗教自由。
If it somehow managed to win a genuine election, it would have to serve the needs of the rural majority instead of the urban minority.
如果它在真正的选举中勉强赢得胜利，肯定要服务于农村大多数而不是城市少数人的需要。
Minsheng, unlike the bulk of its peers, is privately owned and was prepared to settle for a minority stake.
与众多其它中国银行不同，民生是一家民营银行，也乐于成为一个小股东。
A minority of the children formed a control group and didn't go through an intervention of any kind.
另外少数没有接受任何干预的小孩组成对照组。
In the working world, "you might be in a position where you're the only woman at the table, or you're in the minority" , she says.
她表示，在工作环境中，“你可能会是会议桌前惟一的女性，或属于少数”。
The next election is not due until 2012, and a fractious opposition seems unable to topple his minority government.
因为下届选举要到2012年，而且反对派似乎也无力推倒他的少数党政府。
Since then, the price of greater freedom seems to have fallen disproportionately on the large Coptic Christian minority.
从那以后，争取更多自由的代价似乎不成比例地落在大部分科普特基督徒少数族群身上。
A spokeswoman for state Senate Minority Leader Dennis Hollingsworth, R-Temecula, said he had no comment on the proposal.
加州参议院少数党领袖丹尼斯-霍林兹沃斯的女发言人R-Temecula表示，丹尼斯对提案没有意见。
Afro-Caribbeans still do remarkably badly, but whites are at the bottom of the pile. All ethnic minority groups do better than them.
非洲-加勒比裔孩子仍然非常糟糕，不过白人却排在最后，所有少数族裔都比白人表现好。
But ethnicity combined with poverty can be a barrier: two-thirds of out-of-school girls around the world belong to ethnic minority groups.
但种族和贫困问题则是构成上学的障碍：全球三分之二的失学女童属于少数族裔群体。
The prime minister said the strike had been called by a "minority" of teachers, and said it was regrettable for both pupils and parents.
总理说，这次*已被所谓的由“少数人”的教师，并表示，这是令人遗憾的双方学生和家长。
On the one hand his position is analogous to that of a minority shareholder or silent partner in a private business.
一方面，他的立场类似于一个私有企业的少数股东或者沉默合伙人。
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