| 单词 | preliterate |
| 释义 | preliterate (once / 909178 pages) adj Someone who's preliterate hasn't learned how to read or write yet. Your two year-old cousin is probably preliterate. Small children are preliterate, and some people with learning difficulties remain preliterate for much longer. There are even entire preliterate societies, in which no one knows how to read or write. In these cultures, people speak and communicate perfectly well — they just don't have a written version of their language. When you're literate, you can read and write, and both words have a Latin root, literatus, "educated," or literally, "one who knows the letters." WORD FAMILYliterate: illiterate, literacy, literately, literates, nonliterate, preliterate, semiliterate+/illiteracy: illiteracies/illiterate: illiteracy, illiterately, illiterates/literacy: literacies USAGE EXAMPLESThe same gestures can be identified as prideful by 4-year-old children, and by people in preliterate societies throughout the world. Slate(Apr 03, 2015) He wrote, “Death is as certain as tomorrow’s sunrise, but for our ancestors living in the distant, preliterate past, death arrived unbidden, unannounced and unexplained.” Forbes(Feb 03, 2015) “The fact that we discovered this intuition in infants and in preliterate adults does not mean that this form of reasoning is flawless,” he says. Nature(Nov 02, 2014) 1adj not yet having acquired the ability to read and write Syn illiterate not able to read or write 2adj used of a society that has not developed writing Syn nonliterate noncivilised, noncivilized not having a high state of culture and social development |
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