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 illiteracy [i'litәrәsi]   添加此单词到默认生词本
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    illiteracy
    [ noun ]
    1. ignorance resulting from not reading

      2. <noun.cognition>
    2. an inability to read

      3. <noun.cognition>


    Illiteracy \Il*lit"er*a*cy\, n.; pl. {Illiteracies}. [From
    {Illiterate}.]
    1. The state of being illiterate, or uneducated; lack of
    learning, or knowledge; ignorance; specifically, inability
    to read and write; as, the illiteracy shown by the last
    census.

    2. An instance of ignorance; a literary blunder.

    The many blunders and illiteracies of the first
    publishers of his [Shakespeare's] works. --Pope.

    1. He said his wife Kathy was the only one who knew about his illiteracy.
    2. While illiteracy was once a problem that could be ignored, industry is now forced to confront it.
    3. That legacy includes an army notorious for its human rights abuses, an ineffectual judicial system, a population with a 65 percent illiteracy rate and a per capita income of $360 a year.
    4. "We do have the worst illiteracy rate of any industrialized nation in the world.
    5. In addition to curriculum improvements, the new reform package provides for programs to fight illiteracy, teen-age pregnancy and dropouts in the 505,000-student public school system.
    6. Nancy Reagan had drugs as her special concern, Barbara Bush has illiteracy and Marilyn Quayle has disasters.
    7. Brazil, a nation of 150 million people, had been making headway against illiteracy.
    8. Four years ago, Ringling Bros. decided to help tackle illiteracy _ an estimated 23 million American adults cannot read _ and kicked off a nationwide "Ringling Readers" program.
    9. Though the agency has recently attempted to incorporate some Cajun instruction in the program, it wasn't so long ago that its leadership asserted that to teach Cajun was to spread illiteracy.
    10. It also has the highest illiteracy rate in all of Brazil.
    11. Functional illiteracy among adult Americans is shockingly high, by whatever estimate.
    12. In a day of fraught, sometimes rambling testimony, Wedtech Corp. founder John Mariotta said illiteracy kept him from knowing about the illegal goings-on at his scandal-plagued company.
    13. The report urged Congress to do more to eradicate illiteracy and to get private groups and businesses to join the battle.
    14. She says that even more than illiteracy, she is concerned about people who can read, but don't.
    15. The U.N. Population Fund, sponsoring the conference that begins Monday, will seek agreement on eradicating illiteracy among women by the year 2000 and improving the availability of contraceptives, conference sources said.
    16. Infant mortality, contaminated drinking water, illiteracy and lack of roads and electricity plague its many peasant farmers.
    17. Stations are a major means of communication in the country, which has a 57 percent illiteracy rate.
    18. "When we take our political measurments, we count the nuclear situation and gross national product, but mark religion as a throwaway." Partly, he said, it's a result of "religious illiteracy" among journalists and other analysts.
    19. Jan. 6 Carlsbad (N.M.) Current-Argus on illiteracy: An estimated 23 million people in this country cannot read books or newspapers.
    20. The health minister has warned that China's high incidence of hereditary diseases, disabilities and illiteracy is a threat to national development, it was reported Wednesday.
    21. He promises to work in partnership with the private sector to eliminate adult illiteracy.
    22. Reg Murphy, the publisher and chief executive officer of The Sun in Baltimore blamed a 10 percent drop in newspaper readership over the past several years on illiteracy, competition with other news media and competition for readers' time.
    23. Lewis from the Bronx, Clint and Anna from Minneapolis, and Herb from rural Kentucky have two things in common: Each is young, and each has struggled with illiteracy.
    24. Spending on education in a nation with a 20 percent illiteracy rate was increased 9.8 percent to $7.5 billion.
    25. A 1985 study placed the illiteracy rate for Colorado adults at 8%, lower than the 13% national average, but Mr. Henderson thinks it's actually higher.
    26. Hundreds of schools built by Indonesia since annexation helped reduce illiteracy from more than 90 percent in colonial days to 31, Carrascalao said.
    27. Efforts by U.S. chemical producers and activists to reduce the danger by improving pesticide labeling seem hollow since illiteracy is rampant.
    28. Mosco attributes the delay in filing for aid to the widespread destruction in rural areas, illiteracy and victims' unfounded fears that their social service benefits would be cut if they received disaster relief.
    29. The communist government has made significant progress in teaching Chinese to read, reducing illiteracy from about 80 percent in 1949 to 20 percent of its 1 billion people today.
    30. "No profession is more affected by illiteracy than ours," he said. "The future of newspapers depends on the ability of our citizens to read." Johnson urged his colleagues to take part "in an all-out national campaign against illiteracy.
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