1. In the past, West China most people were the illiterate person, the semiliterate. 过去，华西大多数人是文盲、半文盲。
2. Because to misspell is human; to have no idea of correct spelling is to be semiliterate. 因为错拼的是人，不知如何改正拼写错误的就是半文盲。
3. Wordless: Medhi's interfaces guide illiterate and semiliterate users through tasks such as electronic banking. Credit: Indrani Medhi/Microsoft Research India 旁白 ：梅迪的应用界面帮助文盲与半文盲的用户学会使用电子银行等服务。
4. He also lingers over the oddly aloof version of intimacy he fashioned with Deborah Read, his semiliterate wife, and his illegitimate son, William, whom he would raise but eventually disown. 他也花了不少篇幅在富兰克林和他的半文盲妻子黛波拉·里德及私生子威廉奇怪地疏远的关系上（他起初要抚养威廉，最后却与他断绝了关系）。
