minority
n. 少数; 少数民族; 未成年
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.
Local authority nursery provision covers only a tiny minority of working mothers...
当地政府提供的保育服务只有少数上班族母亲才能够享受到。
These children are only a small minority.
这些孩子只是很少的一部分。
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.
...the region's ethnic minorities...
这个地区的少数民族
Students have called for greater numbers of women and minorities on the faculty...
学生要求聘请更多女教师和少数民族族裔的老师。
1. a group of people who differ racially or politically from a larger group of which it is a part
2. being or relating to the smaller in number of two parts;
3. any age prior to the legal age
be (或 find oneself) in a minority of one
(常幽默)是孤家寡人;得不到任何支持
in the minority
属少数派;占少数的
She enjoys watching dance , be it ballet , national minority dancing or any other sort of dancing.
芭蕾舞也好,民族舞也好, 随便什么舞她都喜欢看.
A lot of national parks lie in the areas inhabited by minority nationality people.
许多国家公园都位于少数民族聚居的地方.
The minority nationalities account for six per cent of the population.
少数民族占人口的百分之六.
Boys are very much in the minority at the dancing class.
舞蹈班里男生占极少数.
He is in his minority.
他尚未成年.