最难读的20个英文单词.doc

最难读的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.phenomenon 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。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 its 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) fnmnnn. 现象2. anaesthetist (uh-nes-thi-tist) nistst n. 麻醉师3. remuneration (ri-myoo - nuh-reyshun) r,mjunre()nn. 报酬4. statistics (stuh-tis-tiks) sttstks n. 统计5. ethnicity (eth-nis-i-tee) enstn. 种族划分6. philosophical (fil-uh-sof-i-kuhl) flsfk()ladj. 哲学的7. provocatively (pruh-vok-uh-tiv) pruvktivladv.煽动地8. anonymous (uh-non-uh-muhs) nnmsadj. 匿名的9. thesaurus (thi-sawr-uhs) srsn. 宝库；辞典10. aluminium (al-yuh-min-ee-uhm) l(j)mnmadj. 铝的11. regularly (reg-yuh-ler-lee) rjlliadv. 定期地12. February (feb-roo-er-ee) febrrn. 二月13. particularly (per-tik-yuh-ler-lee) ptkjlladv. 特别地14. hereditary (huh-red-i-ter-ee) hredt()radj. 遗传的15. prioritising (prah-awr-i-tahyz-ing) prartazv. 优先处理16. pronunciation (pruh-nuhn-see-ey-shuhn) pr,nnse()nn. 发音17. prejudice (prej-uh-dis) preddsn