literal, literary, literate 1. “Have you eaten your meal?” in Chinese is only a greeting. We must not translate it in English. 2. Poor as the country was, more than ninety percent of the population was . 3. It is ridiculous to say that a person can’t say a critic can’t criticize Shakespeare if he can’t write better than Shakespeare. 4. It is said that Lu Xun strongly advised his son not to pursue a career. 5. Christian fundamentalists believe that it was the truth how God created the world as described in the Bible.