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

VOA: special.2009.04.02

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。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

Yang-Da says you just have to add up people's preferences and those in the minority do have their preferences weighed.

杨达说，必须总体考虑人们的选择,而其中少数人的选择其实也被衡量过了。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

She will now serve as the minority leader.

VOA: special.2011.01.10

Firms that do that are, in practice, however, the minority and most mutual funds have some gimmick or some special-- they claim to be beating the market not forming the optimal portfolio.

然而实际上,这么做的公司很少,大部分共同基金都会耍些花招,或有一些特别的...,他们强调他们的收益率将强于市场平均水平,而非建立最佳投资组合

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

But Stimson's voice was in the minority.

VOA: special.2011.03.03

And obesity is a huge problem in the United States, especially in the African american community and other minority communities.

在美国,肥胖症是一个严重的问题,尤其在非裔美国人和,其它少数民族群体中

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

All the members of the minority party voted against the Senate measure, and only one supported the legislation passed in the House.

VOA: standard.2009.12.27

And I went to the school where I was a member of a very small minority group.

而在我上的大学里,我则属于一个非常小的少数人群体。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

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

VOA: standard.2009.10.23

These qualities, he believes, are the preserve of the few, of a minority capable of sharing in the administration of justice and in the offices of a city.

他相信这些特质，是少数人所特有，他们能共享,正义的运作,与城市中的行政官位。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

"If you look at those who are most inclined to be involved in politics right now, the dynamic shifts to the minority party."

VOA: standard.2009.11.02

A minority government of revolutionary Puritans had effectively taken control of the state. The radical Puritan Parliament voted to execute the tyrant -- what they considered to be the tyrant, King Charles I -- and to establish its own government.

清教徒革命者组建的少数政府成功的,控制了英国，激进的清教徒议会投票决定,处死暴君--他们认为是暴君的，国王查理一世--并组建自己的政府。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Its involvement has been deeply debated in Britain. Nick Clegg of the minority opposition party, the Liberal Democrats, said in Parliament debate the forces deserve gratitude and clarity.

VOA: standard.2009.10.14

Primarily the people who started are Emerson and Moscovici and many others who have done research showing how minority-- very often one person can make a big difference, can make a significant difference.

爱默生和莫斯科维奇是先驱,他们和其他学者都证明少数人-,经常是一个人，如何实现重大改变，能实现显著的改变。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

Arkhipov says honest bureaucrats are outcasts who are surrounded by an atmosphere of intolerance, because they are not convenient to bureaucrats or embezzlers, whose main goal is to cast the minority aside.

VOA: standard.2009.05.15

As you move later in their history, you find you can guess that there would be councils that were not purely of nobles but might be of wealthy people, but they would always be a minority and come from the upper class.

随着你们进一步了解希腊的历史,你们能轻易猜想到议会组成人员中,不仅仅只有贵族,还有富人,但他们都是来自上层阶级的少数人

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

The completion rate is lower than for almost any other wealthy country, and worst for poor and minority students.

VOA: special.2009.09.10

Now let's see what people's reasons are and let me begin with those who are in the minority.

现在来听听大家的理由,先从少数派开始。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

Female and minority students would face the most harm,it says, as they are more likely to attend career colleges.

VOA: special.2010.07.29

Who has an answer to Anna's worry about the effect on the minority?

谁能回答,安娜对于少数人影响的担心？

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

Leaders of minority groups including Hispanics and Muslims are urging their communities to complete the form so they are counted.

VOA: special.2010.03.20

If the majority rules that there should be taxation, even if the minority should still not have to be taxed because that's taking away property, which is one of the rights of nature.

即使多数人规定应当征税，少数人仍并不一定非要交税,因为那等于夺走少数人的财产，而财产权是自然权利之一。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

He says the biggest challenge is jobs the disabled have the lowest employment rate of any minority group in the country.

VOA: special.2009.08.15

So there may be certain rights that the minority members have that the individual has that shouldn't be traded off for the sake of utility?

所以可能少数人,或个体的某些权利,不该为了功利最大化而被牺牲？

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

This act of peaceful disobedience started protests in Montgomery that led to legal changes in minority rights in the United States.

VOA: special.2009.03.08

Can you give an example of the kind of thing you're worried about when you say you're worried about utilitarianism violating the concern or respect due the minority?

你能举个你所担心的类似例子吗,即你所说的担心,功利主义缺少对少数的关心和尊重？

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

It asked more than one thousand women and minority members of the American Chemical Society about their experiences.

VOA: special.2010.04.01

Let's hear now from those in the minority, those who wouldn't turn.

现在我们来听听少数派的意见，那些选择不转弯的。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

And I mean, at a certain point, you have to make a decision and I'm sorry for the minority but sometimes, it's for the general, for the greater good.

有时，你必须做出选择,我对少数表示遗憾,但有时，这是牺牲小我，成全大我。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选