一、詳細(xì)釋義:


adj.

文盲的,目不識(shí)丁的,不識(shí)字的,沒(méi)受教育的


例句:

A large percentage of the population is illiterate.

文盲人口占有相當(dāng)高的比例。


例句:

A person can be highly educated, professionally successful and financially illiterate.

一個(gè)人可能受過(guò)高等教育而且事業(yè)成功,但也可能是財(cái)務(wù)上的文盲。


n.

文盲,目不識(shí)丁者 [C]


例句:

They made an illiterate out of my daughter.

他們使我女兒變成了文盲。


例句:

If you stop learning, you will become an illiterate of modern time.

若你停止學(xué)習(xí),將會(huì)成為現(xiàn)代文盲。


二、詞義辨析:


ignorant,illiterate

這兩個(gè)形容詞均可表示“無(wú)知的”之意。 ignorant指一般的無(wú)知或指不知道某個(gè)具體的事。 illiterate指不識(shí)字的人或沒(méi)有文化的人。


三、相關(guān)短語(yǔ):


functional illiterate

職業(yè)上的文盲(指讀寫(xiě)能力不能滿(mǎn)足職業(yè)和形勢(shì)的要求)


四、參考例句:


Being illiterate , he had to learn the stories by heart.

由于不識(shí)字,這些故事他都得背下來(lái)。


They made an illiterate out of my daughter.

他們使我女兒變成了文盲。


A large percentage of the population is illiterate.

大部分的人口都是文盲。


About half the population in the country is still illiterate.

這個(gè)國(guó)家大約有一半人口仍是文盲。


You must be an illiterate if you've never heard of Marx.

要是連馬克思也沒(méi)聽(tīng)說(shuō)過(guò),那你一定是個(gè)文盲。


He is an illiterate Ethiopian peasant who as a child never went to school.

他是一個(gè)小時(shí)候從沒(méi)上過(guò)學(xué)的埃塞俄比亞文盲農(nóng)民。


If you stop learning, you will become an illiterate of modern time.

若你停止學(xué)習(xí),將會(huì)成為現(xiàn)代文盲。


She gives the example of an MIT program that gave iPads to illiterate kids in Ethiopia who then were able to teach themselves how to use it, program it and read it in English without a teacher or curriculum.

她例舉了一個(gè)麻省理工大學(xué)做過(guò)的項(xiàng)目,在項(xiàng)目中,實(shí)驗(yàn)者將iPad送給埃塞俄比亞的文盲兒童,他們就可以在沒(méi)有老師或課程的指導(dǎo)下,自學(xué)如何使用iPad,給它編程序,閱讀它的英文版。