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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In Dharavi, a slum outside Mumbai, an illiterate mother called Aruna sits in her tiny one-room flat, which is home to ten people. Asked how she feels about the rich, she says: "They have worked hard."

在达拉维，孟买城郊的贫民区，一位名叫阿鲁妠的不识字的母亲，坐在她那住着十个人却只有一个房间的小平房前，当问到她对富人有什么看法时，她说“富人努力工作。”

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English began as one of several obscure languages spoken by illiterate Germanic tribesmen in the mists of northern Europe.

英语起初是北欧一些未受过教育的日尔曼部落人员讲的几种含糊语言中的一种。

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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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Illiterate Idea One of the goofiest, most destructive educational fads of recent times has been the so-called Whole Language method of teaching kids to read.

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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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