What is most worrying about the whole problem is, perhaps, that it is yet another instance of the innocent majority being penalized and inconvenienced because of the actions of a small minority.

也许整个问题中最令人担忧的部分是，另一个无辜的群体因为少数人的行为而受到惩罚并深受困扰的例子。

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If it somehow managed to win a genuine election, it would have to serve the needs of the rural majority instead of the urban minority.

如果它在真正的选举中勉强赢得胜利，肯定要服务于农村大多数而不是城市少数人的需要。

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But those who are unhappy with the system are in the minority; the majority of them are satisfied with their lot and are biding time until they too take up more senior positions.

不满意学术体系的终究只占少数，大部分人还是安于命运，耐心等待，直到自己也获得更高的地位。

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In such a system,he said, the minority would be able to veto actions of the majority.

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I don't think that's the case because individually, the minority's value is just the same as the individual of the majority.

我认为事实并非如此，因为,少数人当中，每个个体的价值,和多数人的个体价值是一样的。

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The Tamil Tigers struggle for an independent homeland was triggered by complaints of discrimination against the minority Tamil community by the majority Sinhalese.

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The system is set up so that two are of the majority party and the third is of the minority party.

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David McLetchie asked the first minister whether he would agree with the comments of the president of the National Association of Schoolmasters who say education for the majority is being seriously hampered by the bad behaviour of a minority.

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Liberals like to boast that they are defenders of civil rights and constitutional freedoms, especially in protecting the rights of the minority against the majority.

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