In two thousand six, Michael Jordan bought a minority ownership in the Charlotte Bobcats professional basketball team.

VOA: special.2011.03.11

These qualities, he believes, are the preserve of the few, of a minority capable of sharing in the administration of justice and in the offices of a city.

他相信这些特质，是少数人所特有，他们能共享,正义的运作,与城市中的行政官位。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

A minority government of revolutionary Puritans had effectively taken control of the state. The radical Puritan Parliament voted to execute the tyrant -- what they considered to be the tyrant, King Charles I -- and to establish its own government.

清教徒革命者组建的少数政府成功的,控制了英国，激进的清教徒议会投票决定,处死暴君--他们认为是暴君的，国王查理一世--并组建自己的政府。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

By some estimates,non-Hispanic whites will become a minority in the United States in about thirty years.

VOA: special.2011.06.13

As you move later in their history, you find you can guess that there would be councils that were not purely of nobles but might be of wealthy people, but they would always be a minority and come from the upper class.

随着你们进一步了解希腊的历史,你们能轻易猜想到议会组成人员中,不仅仅只有贵族,还有富人,但他们都是来自上层阶级的少数人

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

But he says opponents of the college represent a minority opinion in the United States.

VOA: special.2010.08.05

And obesity is a huge problem in the United States, especially in the African american community and other minority communities.

在美国,肥胖症是一个严重的问题,尤其在非裔美国人和,其它少数民族群体中

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Both were from the North. They had said they would write a minority decision.

VOA: special.2009.05.14

This idea of being minority is a definition that was put on me by my American community.

属于少数群体“这个想法,是我在美国时,的标签。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

But it has been effective. It has helped to balance a potentially disruptive tension between the desires of a minority and the broader interests of our all-volunteer force."

VOA: special.2010.02.06

It's an amazing question why they have it but this is a very small minority.

你提出的这个非常棒,但实际上只有极少数孤独症患者会这样

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

"We women are supposed to be a minority.

VOA: special.2010.08.08

And I mean, at a certain point, you have to make a decision and I'm sorry for the minority but sometimes, it's for the general, for the greater good.

有时，你必须做出选择,我对少数表示遗憾,但有时，这是牺牲小我，成全大我。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

Consideration of a minority patient's language, customs and beliefs by virtue of their heritage is a concept known as cultural competency.

VOA: standard.2010.03.05

Primarily the people who started are Emerson and Moscovici and many others who have done research showing how minority-- very often one person can make a big difference, can make a significant difference.

爱默生和莫斯科维奇是先驱,他们和其他学者都证明少数人-,经常是一个人，如何实现重大改变，能实现显著的改变。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

"More and more these people, they feel as a member of a minority in Turkey.

VOA: standard.2009.05.20

And I went to the school where I was a member of a very small minority group.

而在我上的大学里,我则属于一个非常小的少数人群体。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

I think it is a combination of a very,very distinct special language on one hand and then on the other, she has really a story to tell about growing up in a dictatorship but also growing up as a minority in another country and also growing up sort of a stranger for your own family.

VOA: standard.2009.10.08

In 1859, Mill wrote a famous book on liberty, the main point of which was the importance of defending individual rights and minority rights, and in 1861, toward the end of his life, he wrote the book we read as part of this course, "Utilitarianism."

859年穆勒写了本关于自由的名著，书里的主要观点是,争取个体和少数群体权利的重要性，1861年，在晚年时期，他写了《功利主义》，这也属于本课的阅读资料“

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

Minority children, especially Hispanics, are increasing at a fast rate while the United States has fewer white children.

VOA: special.2010.03.20

In any group of people there is a small minority, I want to emphasize small, who just love to do risky things.

任何一个人类群体,总有一小撮人,我说是很少的一部分人,他们很喜欢投机冒险

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

In such a system,he said, the minority would be able to veto actions of the majority.

VOA: special.2009.04.02

Hispanics are now the nation's largest ethnic minority, and a fast growing group of voters.

VOA: special.2009.05.30

Judge Sotomayor would replace a justice who has generally voted with the liberal minority.

VOA: special.2009.05.30

"The best antidote to intolerance is not the 'Defamation of Religions' approach of banning and punishing offensive speech, but rather a combination of robust legal protections against discrimination and hate crimes, proactive government outreach to minority religious groups, and a vigorous defense of both freedom of religion and expression."

VOA: special.2009.10.31

Minority Leader Mitch McConnell repeated his party's warning about rushing a complicated and expensive health care bill through Congress.

VOA: standard.2009.07.21

"It is a very fringe minority even among the JI members, those who actually advocate violence is a very fringe minority,".

VOA: standard.2009.09.21

A member of Romania's ethnic German minority, Mueller knew persecution under the rule of the Ceausescu regime.

VOA: standard.2009.10.08

Researchers say the reasons for this disparity include stereotyping of patients by health care providers, and a severe shortage of minority health care professionals.

VOA: standard.2010.03.05

Dr.Louis Sullivan says minority health care professionals fill a key role in serving ethnic communities.

VOA: standard.2010.03.05