I was an illiterate in the old society, but now I can read.

我这个旧社会的文盲，今天也认字了。

《新英汉大辞典》

An illiterate, later he received some schooling.

他原先大字不识一个，后来接受一些学校教育。

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She was born to an illiterate mother who ran her own hacienda.

她的母亲是文盲，有着自己的庄园。

youdao

There's one very abstruse clue where somebody seems to know something about it, but fundamentally it's an illiterate society and that is a major difference between the world of Homer and the Mycenaean world.

只有一段很艰涩的文字大约表明有人,了解这一点,但基本上,荷马所描绘的世界,是一个文盲社会,这也是《荷马史诗》和真实的迈锡尼世界,之间的主要差异

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