世界 上 最 難 的 英文 單字

世界上最難背的十個英文單字

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'Phenomenon' is the most mispronounced word

“phenomenon” 是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。“phenomenon” 比较拗口，大部分人在读的时候经常混淆M和N的音。

'Anaesthetist' came second because of quickly moving between the TH to the letters T at the end. In third place was 'remuneration', which is often mispronounced as 'renumeration'.

“anaesthetist”（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“remuneration”（报酬）一词，经常被人们错读为“renumeration”。

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，“statistics”和“ethnicity”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: "Many words are difficult to say and when we struggle 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。”

"A 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。

Top 20 mispronounced words:

20个最难读的英文单词：

1. phenomenon (fi-nom-uh-non)  

2. anaesthetist (uh-nes-thi-tist)  

3. remuneration (ri-myoo - nuh-reyshun) &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; [rɪ,mjuːnə'reɪʃ(ə)n]n. 报酬&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt; 4. &lt;a href="http://m.hujiang.com/d/statistics" class="hjdict" word="statistics" target="_blank"&gt;statistics&lt;/a&gt;&lt;script language="Javascript"&gt;GetWord("statistics"); (stuh-tis-tiks) &nbsp; </p><p> 5. <a href="http://m.hujiang.com/d/ethnicity" class="hjdict" word="ethnicity" target="_blank">ethnicity</a><script language="Javascript">GetWord("ethnicity"); (eth-nis-i-tee)  

6. philosophical (fil-uh-sof-i-kuhl)  

7. provocatively (pruh-vok-uh-tiv)  

8. anonymous (uh-non-uh-muhs)  

9. thesaurus (thi-sawr-uhs)  

10. aluminium (al-yuh-min-ee-uhm)  

11. regularly (reg-yuh-ler-lee)  

12. February (feb-roo-er-ee)  

13. particularly (per-tik-yuh-ler-lee)  

14. hereditary (huh-red-i-ter-ee)  

15. prioritising (prah-awr-i-tahyz-ing)  

16. pronunciation (pruh-nuhn-see-ey-shuhn) 

17. prejudice (prej-uh-dis)  

18. facilitate (fuh-sil-i-teyt)  

19. hospitable (hos-pi-tuh-buhl)  

20. onomatopoeia (on-uh-mat-uh-pee-uh)