majority
音标发音
- 英式音标 [mə'dʒɒrɪtɪmə'dʒɒrətɪ]
- 美式音标 [məˈdʒɑː.rə.t̬i]
- 国际音标 [mə'dʒɔriti]
- 英式发音
- 美式发音
基本解释
- n.大多数；多数；多数党；多数派
词源解说
- 16世纪50年代进入英语，直接源自后期拉丁语的majoritas，意为较大的。
词根记忆
- 来自major(a.较多的)
用法辨析
- 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。
- majority也可泛指“大多数”。
- 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。
- 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。
- 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。
- 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。
n. (名词)
词组短语
- 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
用作名词 (n.)
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英英字典
- (NUMBER) the larger number or part of something
- (AGE) the age when you legally become an adult
- The majority of people or things in a group is more than half of them.
- If a group is in a majority or in the majority, they form more than half of a larger group.
- A majority is the difference between the number of votes or seats in a legislature or parliament that the winner gets in an election, and the number of votes or seats that the next person or party gets.
- Majority is used to describe opinions, decisions, and systems of government that are supported by more than half the people involved.
- Majority is the state of legally being an adult. In most states in the United States, people reach their majority at the age of eighteen.
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专业释义
- 多数
It can overcome the harm of abusing the Capital Majority Rule.
股东退出机制可以克服“资本多数决”的缺陷。电子、通信与自动控制技术
- 多数
Experimental results show that the system designed by this paper can meet the synchronization requirements of vast majority of mobile phones.
实验结果表明,本系统能满足绝大多数手机的同步要求。数学
- 择多
- 大多数
- 多数