Many adults have problems with literacy and numeracy.

很多成年人有读写和计算的困难。

Of course, literacy isn't the same thing as intelligence.

当然，识字与智力不是一回事。

Six months later John had developed literacy and numeracy skills, plus confidence.

六个月后，约翰已经能够识字和算数了，也有了自信。

In literacy, they were actually doing better than their peers in other countries.

在读写能力方面，他们实际上比其他国家的同龄人做得更好。

This increase in literacy, in reading, led to an increase in demand for eyeglasses.

读写能力，阅读能力的提高，导致了对眼镜需求的增加。

It is hardly necessary for me to cite all the evidence of the depressing state of literacy.

对我来说，几乎没有必要列举所有关于人们读写能力的证据，这些证据令人沮丧。

More than fifty years ago, the United Nations declared that literacy is a basic human right.

五十多年前，联合国宣布识字是一项基本人权。

As distrust has risen toward all media, people may be starting to beef up their media literacy skills.

由于对所有媒体的不信任感上升，人们可能会开始加强他们的媒介素养技能。

Nor is the global economy forgiving of an American workforce with increasingly weak literacy, math and science abilities.

全球经济也无法容忍美国劳动人口的读写、数学和科学能力越来越弱的现实。

Together, they make up the reading component of your overall literacy or relationship to your surrounding textual environment.

这些共同构成了你整体读写能力或与你周围文本环境相关联的阅读部分。

That study failed to confirm Schellenberg's findings, producing no evidence that music lessons improved math and literacy skills.

该研究未能证实舍伦贝格的发现，没有提出证据证明音乐课提高了数学和读写能力。

At least three years' study would be necessary to achieve the literacy competence necessary to grapple with the material she analyzes.

要掌握她所分析的材料所需的读写能力，至少需要三年的学习时间。

At best, watching television can be educational as well as entertaining, but nobody wishes to raise literacy levels by simply sitting in front of a TV box.

电视至多有教育和娱乐功能，但没人指望简单地通过看电视来提高读写水平。

The organizers of the experiment concluded that far fewer students were achieving at high levels on critical thinking than they were doing for written communication or quantitative literacy.

实验的组织者得出的结论是，在批判性思维方面取得高水平成绩的学生远远少于在书面交流或定量素养方面取得高水平成绩的学生。

Standards in Finland have vastly improved in reading, math and science literacy over the past decade, in large part because its teachers are trusted to do whatever it takes to turn young lives around.

在过去的十年里，芬兰的阅读、数学和科学素养标准都有了很大提高，很大程度上因为人们信任芬兰的老师们会尽其所能来改变年轻人的生活。

Literacy now includes elementary computer skills.

有文化现在包括基本的计算机技能。

Political selection is more dependent on sophistry and less on economic literacy.

政治竞选更多取决于诡辩之术而非对经济是否懂行。

Little Free Library spreads the idea that literacy is of great importance and pushes people to learn and grow in their own literacy.

小小免费图书馆传播识字极为重要的理念，促使人们学习和提高自己的读写能力。

He tries to help his students learn media literacy.

他试图帮助学生学习媒体素养。

"It's never too early to start learning media literacy," John said.

“学习媒体素养越早越好。”约翰说。

However, several studies have shown a serious problem: today's teenagers lack media literacy.

然而，一些研究显示了一个严重的问题：现在的青少年缺乏媒体素养。

Studies have shown that books in the hands of children have a meaningful influence on improving literacy.

研究表明，孩子手中的书籍对提高其读写能力影响重大。

A person who has media literacy would realize that each story is about one side at this time.

一个有媒体素养的人会意识到，如今任何文章都是基于一定立场的。

As for the best time to start learning media literacy, many experts suggest the age of 12. But some basic ideas can be taught even earlier.

至于什么时候开始学习媒体素养最好，许多专家建议的是12岁，但一些基本的知识可以教授得更早一些。

Yet as distrust has risen toward all media, people may be starting to beef up their media literacy skills.

然而，随着对所有媒体的不信任的加剧，人们可能会开始加强他们辨识媒体的技能。

In 1979, the government of Nicaragua established a number of social programmes, including a National Literacy Crusade.

1979年，尼加拉瓜政府建立了若干社会方案，其中包括一项全国扫盲运动。

In both 1850 and 1914, the Scandinavian countries had the highest literacy rates in Europe, or in the world, and the Netherlands was well above the European average.

在1850年和1914年，斯堪的纳维亚半岛各国的教育普及率是全欧洲或全世界最高的，而荷兰则远远高于欧洲平均水平。

During this period, researchers interviewed nearly 3,000 women, some of whom had learnt to read as children, some during the literacy crusade and some who had never learnt at all.

在此期间，研究人员采访了近3000名妇女，其中有些人在小时候已经学会了阅读，一些是在扫盲远征运动中学会的，还有一些从未学过阅读。

It is notoriously difficult to teach adults skills that do not have an immediate impact on their everyday lives, and many literacy campaigns in other countries have been much less successful.

众所周知，教成年人一些对他们日常生活没有直接影响的技能是非常困难的，而其他国家的许多扫盲运动都远远没有我们这么成功。

In 1985, after the National Literacy Crusade had ended, the infant mortality figures for those who remained illiterate and for those educated in primary school remained more or less unchanged.

1985年，在全国扫盲运动结束后，那些仍处于文盲状态的妇女和接受过小学教育的妇女生出来的的婴儿的死亡率基本没有变化。