illiterate
adj. 目不識丁的,文盲的
n. 目不識丁者; 文盲; 無知
Someone who is illiterate does not know how to read or write.
A large percentage of the population is illiterate.
文盲人口占有相當高的比例。
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.
許多高階經理都對技術知之甚少。
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
這兩個形容詞均可表示"無知的"之意。
functionally illiterate
缺乏生活工作常識的
Being illiterate, he had to learn the stories by heart.
由於不識字, 這些故事他都得背下來.
Some of the women are illiterate.
這些女孩子中,有一部分是文盲.
We wanted to a western democracy in a country where half the people are illiterate.
我們希望在這個有一半人口是文盲的國度成立西方民主.
Billy didn't go to school and he was illiterate.
比利沒有上過學,是個文盲.
My father was illiterate.
我的父親沒受過教育.