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单词 to read and write
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to read and (or or) write
P5. to read and (or or) write: to be generally literate; to have the basic skills of literacy. Usually const. with to be able, to learn, to teach, etc.Occasionally with order reversed, as to write and read.
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1490 W. Caxton tr. Eneydos xxii. 84 Cadynus inventour of the first lettres lerned the folke to rede and to write.
1567 Compend. Bk. Godly Songs (1897) 196 Preistis, reid and wryte, And ȝour fals Cannowne law lat be.
1627 Rep. Parishes Scotl. (1835) 22 Theire is ane greit necessatie of ane skule for not ane of the paroche can reid nor wryt.
1738 A. Pope One Thousand Seven Hundred & Thirty Eight Dialogue II 12 Chartres scarce could write or read.
1796 H. Hunter tr. J.-H. B. de Saint-Pierre Stud. Nature (1799) III. 154 I applied myself night and day to the means of learning how to read and write.
1856 J. Aiton Clerical Econ. (ed. 2) 317 An English nursery governess,..to learn them to read and write.
1940 L. MacNeice Last Ditch 25 He was not able to read or write, He did odd jobs..Cutting the hedge or hoeing the drive.
1993 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 4 Nov. 30/1 During the summer, the young boy and his sister helped the peasants compose letters, tried to teach them to read and write.
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