| 释义 |
majority/məˈdʒɒriti/n. (pl. -ies) 1 (usu. foll. by 常后跟 of) the greater number or part 多数，过半数，大半 2 Polit. 【政】a the number by which the votes cast for one party, candidate, etc. exceed those of the next in rank (选举政党、候选人等选票中的)多数票 won by a majority of 151 以 151 票的多数获胜 b a party etc. receiving the greater number of votes 多数党(多数派等) 3 full legal age 成年，法定年龄 attained his majority 到达法定年龄 4 the rank of major 少校级别 □ in the majority esp. Polit. belonging to or constituting a majority party etc. (尤)【政】占多数，属多数 [French majorité from medieval Latin majoritas -tatis (as MAJOR)]■ Usage 用法说明 In sense 1, majority is strictly used only with countable nouns, e.g. a majority of people, and not with mass nouns, e.g. a majority of the work. When used with countable nouns, it is followed by a plural verb, e.g. The majority of his books were failures. 在释义 1 中， majority 严格用于可数名词，如 : a majority of people (大多数人), 不用于物质名词如 : a majority of work (大部分工作)。与可数名词连用时，后跟复数动词，如 The majority of his books were failures (他的大多数书都不成功)。 |