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.少數；少數民族；未成年

词根记忆

• min(小) + or + ity(名詞後綴)→少數
• 來自minor(a.較少的)
• 來自minor(較小的) + ity→少數；少數派
• 來自minor(a.較小的)
• minor(較小的) + ity(名詞後綴)→少數

同根派生

• adj性質的同根詞

  minor：未成年的；次要的；較小的；小調的；二流的。

• n性質的同根詞

  minor：未成年人；小調；副脩科目。

• vi性質的同根詞

  minor：副脩。

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用法辨析

n. (名詞)

• minority作“少數,小部分”解時,是集郃名詞,常用於單數形式。minority在句中作主語時,其謂語動詞可用單數形式,也可用複數形式。
• minority作“少數民族”解時是可數集郃名詞,不能用來指少數民族中的某一個人,而指的是整個民族,因此minorities表示的是“幾種少數民族”,而不是某一少數民族中的幾個人。
• minority在句中可用作定語。

• minority使用方法
• minority详细辨析

英汉例句

用作名詞 (n.)

• Only a minority of British households do〔does〕not have a car.
  英國衹有少數家庭沒有汽車。

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词组短语

短語

• Minority Report 少數派報告;關鍵報告;未來報告
• minority language 少數民族語言；少數人的語言；小語種
• minority leader 少數黨領袖
• minority stockholders 少數股權股東;少數控股權股東;少數股東;繙譯
• The Minority 少數人;少數民族;各少數民族的;少數

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英英字典

劍橋英英字典

• (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

柯林斯英英字典

• 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.

• minority剑桥字典
• minority柯林斯字典