单词	literate
释义	literatelit‧e‧rate /ˈlɪtərət/ adjective Word Origin WORD ORIGINliterate Origin: 1400-1500 Latin litteratus, from littera; ➔ LETTER1 Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES Every student should be literate by the time he or she leaves primary school. Over the last hundred years, people have become healthier, more literate, and better educated. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS Either way, they do not need to tyrannize the literate newcomer. It is in this way that the apparent divide between literate and non-literate cultures simply disappears. It, too, wants people to be literate and complains that its offers to help have been ignored. Meanwhile, the emerging industrial factories needed workers who were at least literate and able to follow directions. Paper costs are high, but loss of literate readers is much higher. So administration would be within the competence of any literate person. Third World governments build roads which help farmers to market their produce and schools which create a literate and numerate workforce. Thesaurus Longman Language Activatorable to read► can read · Tom could read by the age of four.· Very few people in the rural areas can read or write. ► literate someone who is literate can read and write - use this about adults or older children: · Over the last hundred years, people have become healthier, more literate, and better educated.· Every student should be literate by the time he or she leaves primary school. ► good/competent reader someone, usually a child who can read well: · Children are expected to be competent readers by the time they leave this class.· Good readers tend to be better at spelling than other children. ► literacy the fact of being able to read - use this especially to talk about how many people in a society can read and in educational contexts: · Cuba has one of the highest literacy rates in the world (=more people can read there than anywhere else in the world)).· Literacy levels amongst girls very quickly overtook those of boys.· She runs a project called 'Forward to Literary'.· special classes in basic skills such as literacy and numeracy Collocations COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB► barely · Through it all Giap remained an intellectual, often aloof from his barely literate followers. NOUN► culture · But in the matter of the relations between a general oral and a privileged literate culture, the shift is crucial. ► people · It could, for literate people, provide a more interesting presentation of fact and argument. ► society · In comparing oral and literate societies in terms of their education systems, for instance, she represents oral systems as decidedly inferior.· A literate society is only as competent to face the dangers of the future as our definition of that adjective allows.· In the ancient world, literate societies recorded their own history in written documents.· The evidence from shrines, temples and churches erected to meet the needs of literate societies is even more decisive. Word family WORD FAMILYnounliteratureliteracy ≠ illiteracyilliterateliteratiadjectiveliteraryliterate ≠ illiterate 1able to read and write OPP  illiterate → numerate2computer literate/musically literate etc able to use computers, understand and play music etc3well educated
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