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词汇 innumerate
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Definition of innumerate in English:

innumerate

adjective ɪˈnjuːm(ə)rətɪˈn(j)umərət
  • Without a basic knowledge of mathematics and arithmetic.

    不懂算术的;不会计算的

    to this day I am practically innumerate
    Example sentencesExamples
    • During the 1980s, he discovered that many of the young workers in his manufacturing firms were functionally illiterate and innumerate.
    • So nice, compassionate, slightly innumerate people who genuinely want to help the homeless could conceivably have been taken in.
    • Only now - after aid - is it possible for them to seriously discuss trade; you can't trade when your people are illiterate, innumerate, diseased and starving.
    • It's a part of the literacy/numeracy problem - if someone is innumerate there's no point trying to explain significance as a percentage etc.
    • There are no contemporary estimates of how rapidly and how far literacy spread; nor is it possible for us to quantify it with the data provided by largely innumerate contemporaries.
    • Since most of us are innumerate, the arguments may seem dazzling.
    • Like millions of Venezuelans, in the midst of spurting oil wealth she was left illiterate and innumerate.
    • He used it to sum up the persuasive power of authoritatively made numeric presentations to a largely innumerate public.
    • The big dirty secret about journalists is that most are innumerate.
    • Even little innumerate old me spotted a discrepancy here.
    • In the past I have found I was too short to be a police officer, too poor to be an international playboy, too innumerate to be an aerospace engineer, too smart to be an elected official.
    • But if you're innumerate, people seem to think that's OK.
    • I wanted to find out just how stupid, reckless or hopelessly innumerate they could be.
    • Even the most innumerate family lawyer will need to know the principles, at least, on which child maintenance is to be assessed.
    • We need to stop being an innumerate country, and start to get on board the fact that it is perfectly possible for everybody to understand the basics of statistics.
    • It would rather let them go out into the world illiterate or innumerate rather than suffer the supposed indignity of being told how to do something properly.
    • But this is a form of social injustice, for innumerate and illiterate workers are locked into a low-wage future.
    • Professionals often use verbal quantifiers such as ‘rarely’ and ‘unlikely’ to describe risk because they believe the public is innumerate.
    • Academics at the University of London warned that if this is not addressed, we could create an innumerate generation.
    • Unfortunately, we physicians are largely innumerate - even those of us who hold editorial positions at influential medical journals.
noun ɪˈnjuːm(ə)rətɪˈn(j)umərət
  • An innumerate person.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Now I know they are staffed by a load of hopeless innumerates, but come on guys…
    • This is like protesting the menorah because it excludes the innumerate.
    • One of the rarely admitted secrets about journalists is that many of us are functional ‘innumerates’ - another way of saying ‘mathematically illiterate.’

Derivatives

  • innumeracy

  • noun ɪˈnjuːm(ə)rəsiɪˈn(j)um(ə)rəsi
    • To state the obvious, anyone who has reached the noble goal of mastering mathematics (with the use of technology or without), must have conquered along the way the common malady of innumeracy.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • What are we to make of the breakdown of standards of intellectual discourse in this affair - the statistical innumeracy, the confusion of fairness with sameness, the refusal to glance at the scientific literature?
      • Let's call it a typo rather than an admission of my own innumeracy.
      • Many economists believe that affective forecasting errors are impediments to rational action and hence should be eliminated - just as we would all agree that illiteracy or innumeracy are bad things that deserve to be eradicated.
      • I won't say that this reporter is biased, but there is this problem of the innumeracy of the press, which has also exhibited itself elsewhere during this episode.

Definition of innumerate in US English:

innumerate

adjectiveiˈn(y)o͞omərətɪˈn(j)umərət
  • Without a basic knowledge of mathematics and arithmetic.

    不懂算术的;不会计算的

    to this day I am practically innumerate
    Example sentencesExamples
    • But if you're innumerate, people seem to think that's OK.
    • Unfortunately, we physicians are largely innumerate - even those of us who hold editorial positions at influential medical journals.
    • Academics at the University of London warned that if this is not addressed, we could create an innumerate generation.
    • He used it to sum up the persuasive power of authoritatively made numeric presentations to a largely innumerate public.
    • Even little innumerate old me spotted a discrepancy here.
    • It's a part of the literacy/numeracy problem - if someone is innumerate there's no point trying to explain significance as a percentage etc.
    • So nice, compassionate, slightly innumerate people who genuinely want to help the homeless could conceivably have been taken in.
    • There are no contemporary estimates of how rapidly and how far literacy spread; nor is it possible for us to quantify it with the data provided by largely innumerate contemporaries.
    • I wanted to find out just how stupid, reckless or hopelessly innumerate they could be.
    • Even the most innumerate family lawyer will need to know the principles, at least, on which child maintenance is to be assessed.
    • In the past I have found I was too short to be a police officer, too poor to be an international playboy, too innumerate to be an aerospace engineer, too smart to be an elected official.
    • We need to stop being an innumerate country, and start to get on board the fact that it is perfectly possible for everybody to understand the basics of statistics.
    • But this is a form of social injustice, for innumerate and illiterate workers are locked into a low-wage future.
    • The big dirty secret about journalists is that most are innumerate.
    • Only now - after aid - is it possible for them to seriously discuss trade; you can't trade when your people are illiterate, innumerate, diseased and starving.
    • Since most of us are innumerate, the arguments may seem dazzling.
    • It would rather let them go out into the world illiterate or innumerate rather than suffer the supposed indignity of being told how to do something properly.
    • During the 1980s, he discovered that many of the young workers in his manufacturing firms were functionally illiterate and innumerate.
    • Professionals often use verbal quantifiers such as ‘rarely’ and ‘unlikely’ to describe risk because they believe the public is innumerate.
    • Like millions of Venezuelans, in the midst of spurting oil wealth she was left illiterate and innumerate.
nouniˈn(y)o͞omərətɪˈn(j)umərət
  • A person lacking basic knowledge of mathematics and arithmetic.

    不懂算术的;不会计算的

    Example sentencesExamples
    • One of the rarely admitted secrets about journalists is that many of us are functional ‘innumerates’ - another way of saying ‘mathematically illiterate.’
    • Now I know they are staffed by a load of hopeless innumerates, but come on guys…
    • This is like protesting the menorah because it excludes the innumerate.
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