"when the vote was taken they were in the minority"
"he held a minority position"
1.少数; 少数派
If you talk about aminority 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.
e.g. Local authority nursery provision covers only a tinyminority 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。
e.g. These children are only a smallminority.
这些孩子只是很少的一部分。
2.少数民族；少数群体
Aminority 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.
e.g. ...the region's ethnic minorities...
这个地区的少数民族
e.g. 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。
英国只有少数家庭没有汽车。
A small minority voted against the motion.投票反对该提议的人占少数。
The question of which state the minority group should belong to was decided by (a) plebiscite.该少数民族应归属哪一州的问题已由公民投票表决。
There are 56 minorities in our country.我国有56个少数民族。
The nationality of the minority groups in that country is still at issue.在那个国家的少数民族的国籍问题上仍有争论。
He is in his minority.他尚未成年。
Only a small minority of students is'/are interested in politics these days.目前，只有极少数同学对政治感兴趣。
minority shareholders in the bank银行的少数股东
the rights of ethnic'/racial minorities少数民族 / 族裔的权利
minority languages少数民族语言
a large German-speaking minority in the east of the country在国家东部一个人口众多的讲德语的少数民族
(North Amercian English)The school is 95 per cent minority (= 95 per cent of children are not white Americans but from different groups) .这所学校里95%的学生来自少数族裔。
(North Amercian English)minority neighborhoods (= where no or few white people live)有色种族聚居区
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。
...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。
The soldiers campaigned in the deserts of Iraq.士兵们在伊拉克的沙漠作战.
She enjoys watching dance , be it ballet , national minority dancing or any other sort of dancing.芭蕾舞也好,民族舞也好, 随便什么舞她都喜欢看.
A lot of national parks lie in the areas inhabited by minority nationality people.许多国家公园都位于少数民族聚居的地方.
The minority nationalities account for six per cent of the population.少数民族占人口的百分之六.
Boys are very much in the minority at the dancing class.舞蹈班里男生占极少数.
He is in his minority.他尚未成年.
Such persons are certainly in the minority.这种人当然占少数.
Those who protested against the president's decision were actually barking at the moon , since they were in a powerless minority.由于他们属于软弱无力的少数,他们反对总统的决定实际上枉费唇舌.
A minority of children are sexually active before they are in their teens.少数孩子十几岁前已有性行为.
The minority is subordinate to the majority.少数服从多数.
The nation wants peace; only a minority want the war to continue.国家要和平, 只有少数人要战争继续下去.
They are in a decided minority.他们明显于少数.
The minority should submit to the majority.少数应服从多数.
Only a minority of British households do not have a car.英国只有少数家庭没有汽车.
Only a tiny minority hold such extreme views.只有极少数人持这样极端的观点。
The government seems not to be troubled by its inconsistent policies on minority rights.政府好像并不觉得其在少数民族权利问题上政策的前后不一有什么不妥。
A minority of officers were prepared to bend the rules.少数官员准备篡改规则。
The long minority of Henry the Sixth who was a boy..at his father's death.
出自：J. R. Green误 He was the only minority who attended the meeting.
正 He was the only minority representative who attended the meeting.
析 minority作“少数民族”解时不能指某少数民族中的具体的人。
