minorities是什么意思？

minorities

• n. 少数( minority的名词复数 )，小部分，少数民族，未成年；

例句

• The interests of the minorities should be protected. 少数民族的利益应该得到保护。
• The white ethnics argue that what is good for blacks is good for other minorities. 白种人主张对黑人有益的就是对其他种族有益的.
• That the blessing of liberty which our Constitution secures be enjoyed alike by minorities and majorities. 我们宪法所保证的自由同样为少数人和多数人享有.
• The interests of minorities will have to be safeguarded under a new constitution. 新宪法必须能保护少数群体的利益。
• Religious minorities were allowed a wide measure of toleration. 宗教少数派获得广泛的宽容对待.
• ...the President's latest pronouncements about the protection of minorities. 总统最近发布的保护少数民族的声明
• ...the persecution of minorities. 对少数派的迫害
• In the US, minorities and immigrants have generally gone into low-paid, unskilled jobs. 在美国，少数族裔和移民一般都会从事低薪水、无需特殊技能的工作。
• ...restive national minorities. 心怀不满的少数民族
• Ethnic minorities are continually scapegoated for the lack of jobs. 工作机会少常常会怪到少数民族头上。

英语六级真题

Minority Report American universities are accepting more minorities than ever
出自-2011年6月阅读原文
But Bowdoin has not done quite as well when it comes to actually graduating minorities
出自-2011年6月阅读原文
Community colleges have low graduation rates generally – but rock-bottom rates for minorities.
出自-2011年6月阅读原文

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• N-SING
  少数; 少数派
  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.
  例句
  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。
• N-COUNT
  少数民族；少数群体
  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.
  例句
  ...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。