The model minority myth renders all those distinctions moot.

少数模范人物的神话把这些差异全都抹煞了。

Builders erected these walls for protection from invasion by those from the north.

筑建长城是为了抵御北方少数民族的入侵。

The government will no longer be a committee at the service of a rapacious minority.

今后，政府将不再是服务于少数贪婪者的委员会。

A handful of unarmed citizens provided protection.

少数没有配备武器的市民为他提供了。

If someone has Ebola, they need to be quarantined with minimal visitors.

如果有人感染了埃博拉病毒，他们需要被隔离，只能接触极少数的人。

A small number of companies that control an industry is called an oligopoly.

少数控制一个行业的公司被称为寡头垄断。

Conversely, the value of a minority language is diminished as people abandon it.

相反，少数人使用的语言会遭到人们抛弃，其价值便会随之降低。

As a white student at Mission San Jose, Hanna Raudsep is a minority.

汉纳·罗塞普作为白人是美国圣何塞使命高中里的少数。

But I believe that innovation is not something that only a few people do.

但我认为创新不是少数人才能做的事。

It's one of the few herbivores that can digest pine needles.

它是极少数能够消化松针的草食动物之一。

It is the sufferings of the many which pay for the luxuries of the few.

为少数人的奢侈买单的，是多数人的痛苦。

So I guess both Susan Boyle and this vegetable vendor in Shanghai belonged to otherness.

我想Susan Boyle和这位上海的买菜农妇的确属于人群中的少数。

Amongst widespread discontent, a minority Shiite group from the north came along, the Houthi rebels.

在广泛的不满情绪中，来自北方的少数什叶派组织胡塞叛军也随之而来。

Sea otters are one of the few marine mammals to use tools.

海獭是少数使用工具的海洋哺乳动物之一。

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？

While only a handful are available in supermarkets around the world.

而在世界各地的超市里只能买到少数的几种。

Only a certain number are available and you have to make seat reservations for these.

只有少数车次的车票可以使用，而且你必须提前预订。

Only a certain number are available and you have to make seat reservation for these.

只有少数车次的车票可以使用，而且你必须提前预订。

He was part of the Sunni minority and suppressed the Shia majority.

他是逊尼少数派的一部分，并打压什叶多数派。

She advocated for minority rights across the British Empire.

她倡导整个大英帝国的少数民族权利。