minority
n. 少數; 少數民族; 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...
當地政府提供的保育服務只有少數上班族母親才能夠享受到。
These children are only a small minority.
這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...
這個地區的少數民族
Students have called for greater numbers of women and minorities on the faculty...
學生要求聘請更多女教師和少數民族族裔的老師。
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;得不到任何支援
in the minority
屬少數派;佔少數的
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, 隨便什麼舞她都喜歡看.
A lot of national parks lie in the areas inhabited by minority nationality people.
許多國家公園都位於少數民族聚居的地方.
The minority nationalities account for six per cent of the population.
少數民族占人口的百分之六.
Boys are very much in the minority at the dancing class.
舞蹈班裡男生佔極少數.
He is in his minority.
他尚未成年.