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个最难读的英语单词
With
nine
letter
and
four
syllables,
the
tongue-twisting
has
been named as
the most mispronounced word in the English
language.
由九个字母和四个音节组成的，
发音饶舌
的“现象”一词成为英语里面最难念的
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
词在调查中之所以名列榜首，
是因为
phenomenon
中的
和
一个连一个，
让你的嘴皮子倒腾不过来。
the letters T at the end.
“麻醉师”一词的发音排名第二，难就难在
和
的音连接得太紧。
In third place was
“报酬”位居第三。这个词难在它经常被误读为
。
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.
参与调查的
3000
人中，
几乎一半的受访者表示他们经常会纠正别人错误的发音，
四分之一的受访者说，发音错误容易给人知识水平不高的印象。
But
suprisingly
in
the
list
of
admissions,
Britons
admitted
that
February
was
the 12th hardest word to spit out.
令人惊奇
的是，英国人把“二月”一词推上榜单，位列最难发音的第十二位。
A spokesman for Spinvox, a voicemail to
text message service, which
carried out
the research, said:
of the structure of
the word.
语音通信公司
Spinvox
进行了这项调查。该公司的发言人说：“Phenom
enon
这
个字很难念是因为这个词本身的结构。”
are
some
real
tongue-twisters
in
the
list
and
it's
understandable
how many
people can get confused when pronouncing certain
words.
“这次的列表中有一些单词确实很饶舌，
所以许
多人在念这些单词时感觉困难是
可以理解的。”
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.