They meet the first literate people in a family.

一户人家里第一个识字的人会晤了他们。

Nonetheless, they were very ordinary literate poor people.

虽然如此 他们都是非常普通的但有文化的穷人。

After a century and more of death and destruction, very few literate English-speaking people remained.

经过一个多世纪的死亡和破坏后，识字的英语人所剩无几。

Imagine that: the danger of understanding how letters form words, the danger of words themselves, the danger of a literate people and their stories.

想象一下：理解字母如何形成单词的危险， 单词本身的危险，识字的人和他们的故事的危险。