About one in five people today, concentrated mostly in Third World nations, are illiterate.

在当今社会，尤其是第三世界国家，五个人中仍有一个是文盲。

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If one is illiterate here, it is only because he wants to be, because education is free and so is the health care, which is fundamental in our lives.

如果有谁是文盲的话，那只能说他自己乐意，因为教育是免费的，医疗也是免费的，这是我们生活的两个基本需求。

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Second, about one-third of the population is considered “illiterate”, meaning in this context that not even a full-fledged medical EEG can convert their brain activities into actions.

第二，据认为约三分之一的人是“文盲”，在这种情况下甚至成熟的医学上的脑电图技术都无法将他们的脑活动转化成行为。

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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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Yet in both states one adult in four is illiterate.

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One in three adults is illiterate.

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