minority /maɪˈnɒrɪtɪ, mɪ-/ CET4 TEM4

• 1. 

  N-SING 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. 少数

  例：

  Local authority child-care provision covers only a tiny minority of working mothers.

  地方政府提供的儿童保育服务只惠及了极少数上班族母亲们。

• 2. 

  PHRASE 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. 占少数

  例：

  Even in the 1960s, politically active students and academics were in a minority.

  即使是在20世纪60年代，政治上活跃的学生和高校教师也是占少数。

• 3. 

  N-COUNT 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. 少数民族; 信仰其他宗教的少数派

  例：

  ...the region's ethnic minorities.

  …这个地区的少数民族。