1·Most 11-year-olds are not encouraged to develop reading skills; a small but significant number are illiterate.
大多数11岁的儿童没有被鼓励去培养阅读技能。有为数不多、但足以引起人们注意的数目的儿童是文盲。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
2·Nearly a billion people are illiterate.
有近10亿人是文盲。
3·Try to imagine your life being illiterate.
试想一下文盲的生活。
4·In the late 1970s, the infant mortality rate for the children of illiterate mothers was around 110 deaths per thousand live births.
在1970年代后期，在文盲母亲所生的孩子中，婴儿死亡率约为每1000名活胎婴儿中有110个夭折。
5·By 1985, about 300,000 illiterate adults from all over the country, many of whom had never attended primary school, had learnt how to read, write and use numbers.
到1985年，全国大约有30万文盲成年人学会了读、写和使用数字，其中许多人从未上过小学。
1·His mute and illiterate mother, and her extended family, raised her two sons in a small flat in Algiers with neither a lavatory nor running water.
他沉默寡言目不识丁的母亲和她的大家庭在阿尔及尔的一间小公寓里抚养她的两个儿子，那里既没有厕所，也没有自来水。
2·I wonder what our forefathers were thinking when they entrusted the whole American enterprise to a bunch of illiterate farmers.
当我们的祖先把美国全部事业托付给一批目不识丁的农民时，我怀疑他们在想什么。
3·Baba Vangas's prophecies made her famous; probably not as famous as Nostradamus, but still, for a humble, illiterate, blind Bulgarian she made headlines all over the world.
巴巴。万加以她卓越的预言而著名，尽管并不如预言家诺查丹马斯著名，然而，作为一个谦逊的、目不识丁的保加利亚盲人，她成了世界各地的头条新闻。
4·She is an illiterate woman from the tribal areas of Pakistan who almost died in childbirth a year after marrying at the age of 12.
她，是个目不识丁的女人，出生在巴基斯坦的部落地区。十二岁时她便早早地结了婚，一年后妊娠，差点死于难产。
5·In remote villages picture posters beckon the illiterate to polling stations.
在偏远的乡村也张贴着大幅的宣传画，召唤目不识丁的村民们到投票站去投票。
1·Frau Schmitz was illiterate almost all her life; she only learned to read and write in prison.
施密兹夫人几乎一辈子都不识字；她只是在监狱里才学会了读写。
2·It describes how street songs mobilized public opinion in a largely illiterate society.
这本书描述了在一个基本不识字的社会里，街道歌曲如何鼓动民意。
3·But Lorna and I have seen illiterate women in Uganda learn to read within days and children exposed to books for the first time in South Africa finding a new world they didn't know existed.
但是萝娜及我在乌干达看到了不识字的女人在数天之内就学会看字，而且在南非看到第一次接触书本的孩子们发现了一个他们所不知道的新世界。
4·Dismissive of Waheeba, she scorns the very idea that this lump of a woman, "obese, menopausal, illiterate", could be her rival in anything.
她对瓦海巴不屑一顾，一想到这个“肥胖、正值更年期、不识字”的恶心女人在任何事上都要和她争宠，她心里就加倍蔑视。
5·The illiterate man was eager to increase his vocabulary.
那个不识字的男人渴望增加他的语汇能力。
1·America has been flooded with illiterate Irish, Italian and Slavic peasants in the past, yet in three generations the newcomers were almost wholly absorbed into the American middle class.
过去，没有文化的爱尔兰、意大利和斯拉夫农民都涌入过美国，但过了三代之后，这些新来者几乎全都进入到了美国的中产阶级。
2·Some of them are illiterate, lack of love or violating the law under impulse.
他们中有一些是没有文化、缺乏关爱、因一时冲动而触犯法律的人。