illiterate
adj. 目不识丁的,文盲的
n. 目不识丁者; 文盲; 无知
Someone who is illiterate does not know how to read or write.
A large percentage of the population is illiterate.
文盲人口占有相当高的比例。
If you describe someone as musically, technologically, or economically illiterate, you mean that they do not know much about music, technology, or economics.
Many senior managers are technologically illiterate.
许多高级经理都对技术知之甚少。
1. a person unable to read
1. not able to read or write
2. ignorant of the fundamentals of a given art or branch of knowledge;
ignorant, illiterate
这两个形容词均可表示"无知的"之意。
functionally illiterate
缺乏生活工作常识的
Being illiterate, he had to learn the stories by heart.
由于不识字, 这些故事他都得背下来.
Some of the women are illiterate.
这些女孩子中,有一部分是文盲.
We wanted to a western democracy in a country where half the people are illiterate.
我们希望在这个有一半人口是文盲的国度成立西方民主.
Billy didn't go to school and he was illiterate.
比利没有上过学,是个文盲.
My father was illiterate.
我的父亲没受过教育.