缺乏生活工作常识的

功能性文盲

functional illiterate───（美）半文盲；职务性文盲（指其读写能力不能满足职业和形势的要求）

functional illiterates───（美）半文盲；职务性文盲（指其读写能力不能满足职业和形势的要求）

functional illiteracy───功能性文盲

functional disease───功能性疾病

functional imperative───功能性需要

functional diseases───功能性疾病

functional imperatives───功能命令

functional water───功能水

functional waters───功能性水域

I'm functionally illiterate.───我是个功能性文盲。

A recent USA TODAY article reported that 90 million Americans are functionally illiterate.───今日美国》有一篇文章报道说，有九千万美国人是半文盲。

Go into any prison or hospital, and you will find a disproportionate number of people who are functionally illiterate.───到任何监狱或医院，你就会发现功能性文盲的人不成比例的多。

and according to our test records, most of your cheerleaders are functionally illiterate.───根据考试记录你的队员里大多数人文化程度都不达标。

even in the wealthiest countries with universal education , many people are functionally illiterate.───甚至在实施普及教育的最富有国家，许多人在文字应用能力上还是文盲。

Half of ten-year-olds are functionally illiterate and there is little sign of improvement.───有一般的10岁儿童是半文盲，而且这种状况基本上没有得到改善。

Almost 13% of black adults are functionally illiterate, compared with 0. 4% of whites.───将近13%的成年黑人是半文盲，而白人只有0.

Up to 50% of prisoners on release cannot read or write well enough to hold down a job, and up to 85% of young offenders are functionally illiterate.

One study estimates that some 30 million adult Americans are "functionally illiterate" and cannot read or write well enough to answer a want ad or understand the instructions on a medicine bottle.

A recent USA TODAY article reported that 90 million Americans are functionally illiterate.

One study estimates that some 30 million adult Americans are "functionally illiterate" and cannot read or write well enough to answer the want ad or understand the instructions on a medicine bottle.

Even in the wealthiest countries with universal education, many people are functionally illiterate.

People judged to be functionally illiterate lack the basic reading and writing skills required in everyday life.

About 13 percent of all 17-year- olds in the United States can be considered functionally illiterate. Functional illiteracy among minority youth may run as high as 40 percent.