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illiterate

/ih-lit-er-it/US // ɪˈlɪt ər ɪt //UK // (ɪˈlɪtərɪt) //

文盲,一字不识,不识字,扫盲

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : unable to read and write: an illiterate group.
    • : having or demonstrating very little or no education.
    • : showing lack of culture, especially in language and literature.
    • : displaying a marked lack of knowledge in a particular field: He is musically illiterate.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an illiterate person.

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Examples

  • The courts place the burden of proof on the people accused of being foreigners, many of whom are poor and illiterate, unable to navigate a convoluted system or afford legal representation.

  • In his autobiography, Vartan recalled how his beloved illiterate grandmother used to tell him that character was everything, possessions ephemeral, reputation enduring.

  • More than 90 percent of the formerly enslaved were illiterate, and education was seen as a source of power and independence, and as a tool for having control over their own lives.

  • For my technologically illiterate mother, the idea of paying bills online provokes as much anxiety as throwing something away.

  • Her mother was illiterate, but she secured a tutor for both her sons and her daughters, and Juana could read by the age of 3.

  • “At first I was happy to be learning to read,” explains the hapless adult illiterate Office Barbrady in an early episode.

  • An ICRW survey in Afghanistan in 2010 found that 71 percent of parents who married off their daughters were illiterate.

  • Libya was then the poorest country in the world and nearly illiterate.

  • The second step taken arose from the necessity of making this speech of the illiterate capable of elevated expression.

  • But at a period more piously illiterate, things of this shadowy nature were linked very closely to objects of a material kind.

  • Illiterate but romantic, she was swept off her feet at the first touch of passion, and the flattery of being recognized!

  • It accordingly searches out illiterate children of school age, or persons smitten with infectious disease.

  • The final d is also omitted by illiterate speakers; Usted is pronounced Uste, and even de becomes e. B and v are interchangeable.