| 词汇 | illiterate |
| 释义 | illiterateWord family noun literature literacy ≠ illiteracy illiterate literati adjective literary literate ≠ illiterate adverbilliterately il·lit·e·rate1 /ɪˈlɪtərət/ adjectiveadj 1. READsomeone who is illiterate has not learned to read or write 不识字的，文盲的 2 WRITEbadly written, in an uneducated way 文理不通的，不通顺的 It was an illiterate letter, full of mistakes. 这封信文笔拙劣，错误连篇。 3. economically/politically/scientifically etc illiterate NOT KNOWknowing very little about economics, politics etc 对经济/政治/科学知识等一窍不通的 Examples from the Corpus economically/politically/scientifically etc illiterate• Ninety per cent of the population is kept politically illiterate, and the government takes orders from the corporations. —illiteracy noun [uncountableU] Examples from the Corpus illiterate• According to the 1981 census, 46.5 percent of the population over the age of seventeen was illiterate.• But that did not mean that they were illiterate.• In fact, although Constanze was not such an accomplished singer as her two elder sisters, she was by no means musically illiterate.• The overwhelming majority of peasant communications were oral in nature in a society that was still largely illiterate.• These are the truly illiterate among us.• Working families moved out of public housing, and poor, illiterate blacks from the rural South poured in.• an illiterate composition• His father was an illiterate farm worker.• If 70% of the population is illiterate, how do people know who they are voting for?• Because a great many of the women are illiterate, music and drama are the best way of making an impact.• An illiterate young man, nineteen years of age, sits beside me in a restaurant and quietly surveys the menu. illiterate2 noun [countableC] someone who has not learned to read or write 文盲 Examples from the Corpus illiterate• Every adult illiterate... is an indictment of us all..• As an illiterate, he does not have the privilege of voting.• Even at the present level, direct federal allocations represent about $ 1. 65 per year for each illiterate.• Only a complete media illiterate could leap to such a conclusion.• Such abuse is the last resort of the political illiterate.• Word spread widely and quickly, through the networks, even through underground comic books where the illiterate could read them. |
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