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最难读的
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个英文单词，你会读吗？
With nine letter
and four syllables, the tongue-twisting
'phenomenon' has been
named as the most
mispronounced word in the English language.
这一单词有
9
个字母
4
个音节，发音十分拗口，也被名副其实地
评
为英语中最容易发错音的单词。
The
word
came
first
in
a
study
of
terms
that
are
tricky
to
get
your
tongue
around, with most people mixing up the
letters M and N on a regular basis.
这个单
词来自于一个关于术语的研究。
比较拗口，
大部分人在读
的时候经常混淆
M
和
N
的音。
letters
T
at
the
end.
In
third
place
was
which
is
often
mispronounced as
麻醉师
)
一词在最容易发错音的单词榜单中名列第二，
其发音难度
在于
Th
和
词末
T
音素之间的快速转换。
第三难读
的是
报酬
)
一
词，
经常被人们错读为
With
the
numbers
of
Ts
and
Ss
in
the
word,
the
fourth
most
difficult
to
pronounce was 'statistics' and
'ethnicity' was in fifth place.
由于拼写中包含
众多的
T
和
S
，
和
分别是第
四和第五难读的
单词。
Almost
half of the 3,000 people surveyed admitted they
often correct someone
if
they
say
something
in
the
wrong
way
and
a
quarter
of
people
said
they
thought mispronunciation showed a lack
of intelligence.
在
3000
名接受调查的人中，有一半承认自己在听到别人发音错误的时候都会纠
正他们
，四分之一的人认为发音错误是智力欠缺的表现。
But
suprisingly in the list of admissions, Britons
admitted that February was the
12th
hardest word to spit out.
但令人吃惊的是，在排名列表
中英国人认为
February
这一单词在这张榜单中排
名第十二。
A spokesman
for Spinvox, a voicemail to text message service,
which carried
out the research, said:
to
pronounce
a
word correctly
it
makes
us self-conscious
about
the
way
we
speak.
语音转文字短信
服务公司
Spinvox
发起了此项研究，
该公司发言人说：
“许多单
词都很难发音，当我们努力发出
单词的正确读音时会自我意识到自己发音的方
式。”
word
one
person
finds
easy
to
say,
maybe
difficult
for
the
next
person.
Although
it's
worrying
that
some
people
find
basic
words
such
as
February
difficult to say.
“某一个人感觉易读的单
词，
可能对另一个人来说就很难发音。
然而人们觉得像
February
这样最基础的单词难读，这一点十分堪忧。”
More than a third of people
even say they avoid using words they know they
struggle with altogether so they do not
end up looking stupid.
超过三分之一的受访者表示，
为了不让自己看起来特别傻，
他们会避免使用自己
读不清楚的单词。
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