majority的词典解释

1. （大）多数，过半数，大部分（份），多人
2. 【律】成年，成人
3. （多得的）票数，超出其余各方票数总和的票数
4. 多数党，多数派
5. 法定年龄
6. 少校军阶，陆军少校的职位，少校级

1. [S]多数,大多数; 半数以上 the larger number or amount, especially of people; most; greater number, more than half
2. [S]票数差距,多得的票数,超过的票数 difference between the number of votes given to the winning party or candidate in an election and the next party or candidate

1.多数;大多数
Themajority of people or things in a group is more than half of them.

e.g. Themajority of my patients come to me from out of town...
大多数来找我看病的患者都是外省人。
e.g. The vastmajority of our cheeses are made with pasteurised milk...
我们生产的绝大部分奶酪都是用巴氏消毒过的牛奶制成的。

2.多数票;超过对方的票数
Amajority is the difference between the number of votes or seats in parliament or legislature that the winner gets in an election, and the number of votes or seats that the next person or party gets.

majority的反义词

e.g. Members of parliament approved the move by amajority of ninety-nine...
议员以99张的多数票批准了这项动议。
e.g. According to most opinion polls, he is set to win a clearmajority...
从大多数民意调查的结果来看，他很有可能以绝对多数票胜出。

3.(观点、决定、体制等)多数人支持的，多数人拥护的
Majority is used to describe opinions, decisions, and systems of government that are supported by more than half the people involved.

e.g. ...her continuing disagreement with themajority view...
她与大多数人的观点依旧不一致
e.g. Amajority vote of 75% is required from shareholders for the plan to go ahead.
这项计划若要实施，必须获得股东 75%的多数票。

4.法定成年年龄(英国和美国大多数州规定为18周岁)
Majority is the state of legally being an adult. In Britain and most states in the United States, people reach their majority at the age of eighteen.

e.g. The age ofmajority in Romania is eighteen...
罗马尼亚的法定成年年龄为18周岁。
e.g. Once you reach yourmajority, you may do what you damned well please.
等你成年后，就可以随心所欲了。

5. see also: absolute majority;moral majority

• compose the majority形成多数派
• enter the majority参加多数派
• form a majority形成多数
• gain a majority取得大多数人的帮助
• get majority获得多数票
• go over to majority参加多数派
• have a majority拥有多数
• hold a majority拥有多数
• join the majority参加多数派
• receive majority获得多数票
• serve the majority为大多数(人)服务
• get one's majority到了成年
• go to the great majority死
• join the great majority死
• pass over to the great majority死

• clear majority绝对多数
• good majority大多数
• great majority大多数
• handsome majority可观的多数
• large majority绝大多数
• narrow majority微弱的多数
• silent majority沉默的大多数
• small majority微弱的多数
• two-thirds majority三分之二的多数
• vast majority绝大多数
• working majority足以成事的多数

• committee majority委员会的过半数

• by a majority以多数
• in a majority占多数

• majority of people多数人

• A few days before her eighteenth birthdaysthe date of her majority.

  出自：L. Strachey

• It is sad that, as it approaches its majority, this organisation should have run into deep waters.

  出自：Listener

1. majority的基本意思是“多数”“大多数”,尤指在选举中在半数以上,即超过其余候选人得票总和的人或政党,也可指票数差距,即多得的票数或超过的票数。
2. majority也可泛指“大多数”。
3. majority还可作“成年人”解,指达到可以投票的法定年龄,如英国、中国等为18岁。
4. majority单独用作主语时,谓语动词多用单数形式,在强调“多数中的各个成员”时,谓语动词常用复数形式。
5. majority只用作单数,通常与of连用。the majority of后可用单数名词,也可用复数名词,谓语动词的数与of后面的名词相一致。
6. 当把“多数”当作一个整体和少数人的整体相对比时,谓语动词用单数形式。