最难读的英文单词

最难读地20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地单词.
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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.
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这个单词来自于一 个关于术语地研究.比较拗口，大部分人在读
地时候经常混淆M和N地音.
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letters T at the end. In third place was which is often
mispronounced as
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麻醉师)一词在最容易发错音地单 词榜单中名列第二，其发音难度
在于Th和词末T音素之间地快速转换.第三难读地是报酬)一词，经常被人们错读为
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With the numbers of Ts and Ss in the word, the fourth most difficult to
pronounce was 'statistics' and 'ethnicity' was in fifth place.
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由于拼写中包含众 多地T和S，和分别是第四和第五难读地
单词.
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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.
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在3000名接受调查地人中，有一半承认自己在听到别人发音错误地时候都会纠
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正他们，四分之一地人认为发音错误是智力欠缺地表现.
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But suprisingly in the list of admissions, Britons admitted that February was the
12th hardest word to spit out.
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但令人吃惊地是，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.
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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 地正确读音时会自我意识到自己发音地方
式.”
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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.
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“某一个人感觉易读地单词，可 能对另一个人来说就很难发音.然而人们觉得像
February这样最基础地单词难读，这一点十分堪 忧.”
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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.
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超过三分之一地 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
读不清楚地单词.
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Top 20 mispronounced words:
20个最难读地英文单词：
1. phenomenon (fi-nom-uh-non) [f?'n?m?n?n]n. 现象
2. anaesthetist (uh-nes-thi- tist) [?'nisθ?t?st] n. 麻醉师
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3. remuneration (ri-myoo - nuh-reyshun) [r?,mju?n?'re??(?)n]n. 报酬
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4. statistics (stuh-tis-tiks) [st?'t?st?ks] n. 统计
5. ethnicity (eth-nis-i-tee) [eθ'n?s?t?]n. 种族划分
6. philosophical (fil-uh-sof-i-kuhl) [f?l?'s?f?k(?)l]adj. 哲学地
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7. provocatively (pruh-vok-uh-tiv) [pr?u'v?k?tivl?]a dv.煽动地
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8. anonymous (uh-non-uh-muhs) [?'n?n?m?s]adj. 匿名地
9. thesaurus (thi-sawr-uhs) [θ?'s??r?s]n. 宝库；辞典
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10. aluminium (al-yuh- min-ee-uhm) [?l(j)?'m?n??m]adj. 铝地
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11. regularly (reg-yuh-ler-lee) ['r?ɡj?l?li]adv. 定期地
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12. February (feb-roo-er-ee) ['febr??r?]n. 二月
13. particularly (per-tik-yuh-ler-lee) [p?'t?kj?l?l?]adv. 特别地
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14. hereditary (huh-red-i-ter-ee) [h?'red?t(?)r?]adj. 遗传地
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15. prioritising (prah-awr-i-tahyz-ing) [pra?'?r?ta?z??]v. 优先处理
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16. pronunciation (pruh-nuhn-see-ey-shuhn) [pr?,n?ns?'e??(?)n]n. 发音
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17. prejudice (prej-uh-dis) ['pred??d?s]n. 偏见
18. facilitate (fuh-sil-i-teyt) [f?'s?l?te?t]v. 促进
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19. hospitable (hos-pi-tuh-buhl) [h?'sp?t?b(?)l]adj. 热情友好地
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20. onomatopoeia (on-uh-mat-uh-pee-uh) [?n?(?)m?t?'pi??]n. 拟声
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