Majority

(noun.) the property resulting from being or relating to the greater in number of two parts; the main part; 'the majority of his customers prefer it'; 'the bulk of the work is finished'.

(noun.) (elections) more than half of the votes.

(noun.) the age at which persons are considered competent to manage their own affairs.

海伦娜编辑

• I said the majority. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Are the honorable, the just, the high-minded and compassionate, the majority anywhere in this world? 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• Nay, let me answer for you, that in a few this harsh temper may be found but not in the majority of mankind. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• As he had nothing else than his majority to come into, the event did not make a profound sensation in Barnard's Inn. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• The ephemeral nature of the vast majority of hypotheses and the dange r to progress of accepting an unverified assumption justify the demand for demonstrative e vidence. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• One thing it is to say that all proposals must ultimately win the acceptance of the majority; it is quite another to propose nothing which is not immediately acceptable. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Th e usage is so completely established that by the majority it is simply taken for granted. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• Taken as they ought to be, the majority of the lads and lasses of the West Riding are gentlemen and ladies, every inch of them. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• First, the majority of people in the community have low ideals. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• I do not believe that the majority of the Northern people at that time were in favor of negro suffrage. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• The Western Union Telegraph Company secured a majority of its stock, and Gen. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Now there are days--I suspect the vast majority of them in most of our lives--when we grind out the thing that is stamped upon us. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• The teeth, through negligence and ignorance, receive less attention among the majority of people than any other subject of a personal character. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• I have given two fair, average specimens of the character of the testimony offered by the majority of the writers who visit this region. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• The vast majority of their drawings represent animals. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• A high note of contempt for democracy was sounded: The soldier and the army, not parliamentary majorities, have welded together the German Empire. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• He longs for majorities. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Representatives who serve some majorities may in reality order the nation about. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.

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