1·Most 11-year-olds are not encouraged to develop reading skills; a small but significant number are illiterate.
大多数11岁的儿童没有被鼓励去培养阅读技能。有为数不多、但足以引起人们注意的数目的儿童是文盲。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
2·Nearly a billion people are illiterate.
有近10亿人是文盲。
3·Try to imagine your life being illiterate.
试想一下文盲的生活。
4·In the late 1970s, the infant mortality rate for the children of illiterate mothers was around 110 deaths per thousand live births.
在1970年代后期，在文盲母亲所生的孩子中，婴儿死亡率约为每1000名活胎婴儿中有110个夭折。
5·By 1985, about 300,000 illiterate adults from all over the country, many of whom had never attended primary school, had learnt how to read, write and use numbers.
到1985年，全国大约有30万文盲成年人学会了读、写和使用数字，其中许多人从未上过小学。