1、 A large percentage of the population is illiterate.
人口中文盲的比例相当高。
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2、 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。
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1、 More recently, while examining housing construction, the researchers discovered that illiterate, non-English-speaking Mexican workers in Houston, Texas, consistently met best-practice labor productivity standards despite the complexity of the building industry’s work.
最近,在研究住房建设时,研究人员发现,尽管建筑行业的工作很复杂,但德克萨斯州休斯顿的文盲、不会说英语的墨西哥工人始终符合最佳实践劳动生产率标准。
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