英语单词“minority”的意思是:少数;少数群体;少数民族;少数派。读音为:英 [ˌmɪnəˈrɑːti]、美 [ˌmɪnəˈrɑːrti]。例句如下:
1. She is a minority in her family.
2. The minority group has been discriminated against.
3. The minority is a minority of the population.
4. The minority is not entirely pleased with the proposals.
5. In Europe the Irish and other nationalities form minorities.
6. "Women remain a minority on company boards and we should expect more efforts to increase women’s presence"— James Morgan, law professor and chief executive of Saxton research.
7. Not that any opposition MPs took kindly to their being classed as minorities either, although one took exception to their characterisation.
8. Women still form a minority of voters, for instance.
9. China has overtaken Britain and America to become the world’s most ethnically diverse nation with nearly half its people hailing from a minority group, the Inter-Parliamentary Union reported today.
10. When women constitute a “minority”, “somebody is always feeling excluded and oppressed”.
以上就是“minority”的意思、读音以及几个例句,它常出现在讨论种族、性别等社会问题时,用以描述某一群体在总体人口中的数量较少的情况。随着全球化的推进,人们越来越关注少数群体的权益,这也是社会进步的体现。