识字

If we can gain their financial support, we can provide well-run, effective mass literacy programs.

要是能获得他们的经济援助，我们便能推动完善且效的大型识字计划。

Elias: What good would that do, she can't read.

那有什么用？她又不识字。

People learned to read by reading the Bible. After dinner, the father of the house would take down the big family Bible and read it aloud to the household. Politicians quoted the Bible in their speeches and school teachers referred to it constantly.

人们藉由读圣经来识字；晚餐後家中的父亲会拿出家庭大圣经，对家人朗读经文；政治人物在他们的演说中引用圣经；学校老师不断地提到圣经。

In his book, Bill Gates talks about how feelgood, politically-correct teachings created a full generation...

亲爱的塞斯， Dear Seth， [1] 你现在仅仅3岁，此刻你还不识字。。。

Which is going to be more effective: hearing it in the context of a story, or seeing it isolated from meaning on a flashcard.

下面哪 一种方法更加有效：是通过故事的上下文听到这个词，还是通过孤立地看教学识字画片上的这个词形呢？

Learning to read is one of the fundamentals of education.

识字是教育的基础之一。

Black men filling our prisons, black children unable to read or caught in a gangland shooting, the black homeless sleeping on grates and in the parks of our nation's capital—we take these things for granted, as part of the natural order, a tragic situation, perhaps, but not one for which we are culpable, and certainly not something subject to change.

黑人装满了监狱，黑人孩子不识字或是参与黑社会枪战，无家可归的黑人睡在大街上或国家首都的公园里——我们已经习以为常了，认为这是自然规则的一部分，也许这种情况是悲惨的，但是没人认为需要对这事负责任，当然也没有东西需要改变。

We see so many statistics that horrify us: how many are hungry, how many are illiterate, how many are denied access to clean water and sanitation.

我们看到许多令我们怵目惊心的统计数字：有多少人饥饿，多少人不识字，多少人没有乾净的水及卫生设施可用。

Most of them are illiterate. Even if in Christianity which is against idolatry.

因为必须考虑到传道的对象的文化水平，大部分信众其实都是不识字的。

I've never met an illiterate person in the country, even outside of the bigger cities.

我在那个国家从没看到不认识字的，即使是在大城市以外。

I'm strongly against the death penalty — it's an eye for an eye.

我不赞成死刑——这是以牙还牙的报复行为。

And to get you the support you need, we're enlisting all elements of our national power: our diplomacy and development, our economic might and our moral suasion, so that you and the rest of our military do not bear the burden of our security alone.

并给你们所须的支援，我们正徵召国家所有各种的力量：我们的外交及发展，我们的经济力量与道德劝说，所以你们与其他军人不须要孤独地负起国家安全的责任。