majority是什么意思

详细释义

• 0 the larger number or part of something -- 大多數，大部分

  • The majority of the employees have university degrees. 大部分員工都有大學文憑。

  • A large majority of people approve of the death sentence. 大多數人贊成死刑。

  • In Britain women are in the/a majority. 在英國，女性佔多數。

  • The Democratic candidate won by a narrow/large majority. 社會黨黨員獲得的票數稍微／遠遠超出對手，在選舉中獲勝。

• 1 the age when you legally become an adult -- 成年；成年的法定年齡

  • the age of majority 法定成年年齡

  • She will inherit her father's estate when she reaches her majority. 她到法定年齡時將繼承父親的遺產。