愛思英語編者按：在一個投票里，英國人選出10個他們覺得發音最有挑戰性的單詞，但中國人可不這么覺得了，10個單詞，你如何看？

Many have said that sorry is the hardest word but theyd be wrong, linguistically speaking at least.
不少人覺得對不起是最難說出口的話，但，你們都錯了，至少從語言學來講。

A poll of its members found 10 words that Britons consistently find the most challenging to pronounce.
在一個投票里，英國人選出10個他們覺得發音最有挑戰性的單詞。

The word we find hardest to pronounce is phenomenon.
最難發音的單詞是phenomenon（現象）。

Next in the TOP 10 of tongue-twisters are remuneration, and statistics.
在十大饒舌單詞里，緊跟著的是remuneration（酬金）和statistics（統計）。

Speakers also have a problem getting their tongue around ethnicity, hereditary and particularly, according to the body charged with recording public utterances.
依據公共話語有關人體發音的記錄，說話者在說ethnicity（種族地位）hereditary（遺傳的）particularly（特別地）這幾個詞時都有舌頭非常難轉動的問題。

Completing the list are conjugal, specific, processes and development.
列表剩下的單詞有conjugal（婚姻的）specific（特殊的）processes（過程）development（進步）。

Leah Willersdorf, of the BIVR, said: We work with many different types of professionals and hear all kinds of voices during our work.
However, when it comes to the English language it always seems to be the same few words that verbally trip people up, with the speaker having to repeat the word in order to get it right, or just abandoning their attempts and moving on.
英國某研究所專家表示大家跟不少不同專業的人合作，聽過多種聲音。
然而，當大家研究英語時，大家發現總有幾個單詞大家發音時都會被它們絆倒，說話者要重復該單詞以糾正發音，又或者直接不說這類單詞，繼續他們的話題。

The poll of tongue twisters was in response to a query by the makers of Scrabble who say one in ten players are reluctant to use words they cannot pronounce.
University of York sociolinguistics expert Professor Paul Kerswill said the English language has evolved to compensate for tricky pronunciations but some words remain a challenge.
He said: People always find a way of simplifying words that they find difficult to get their tongues round, so that an everyday word like handbag sounds like hambag.
Our forebears simplified waistcoat to weskit but weve turned our backs on that.
饒舌單詞投票是由拼字游戲（Scrabble）制作者編制的，他說，十分之一玩家假如感覺這個單詞難發音，他們就不想用。
約克大學社會語言學專家表示，英語已經進化了一些聽起來非常可笑的發音的單詞，但有的單詞仍然是一個挑戰。
他說：大家總會發現一些非常常見的單詞非常難轉動舌頭來發音，就譬如大家平時的單詞handbag（手袋），聽起來就像hambag。
大家的祖先簡化了waistcoat（坎肩、背心）成為weskit，但大家卻對此呲之以鼻。

嘗試一下你讀得順口不~

phenomenon n. 現象；奇跡；杰出的人才
remuneration n. 報酬；酬勞，賠償
statistics n. 統計；統計學；[統計] 統計資料
ethnicity n. 種族劃分
hereditary adj. 遺傳的；世襲的；世代相傳的
particularly adv. 特別地，獨特地；詳細地
conjugal adj. 婚姻的；結婚的；夫妻之間的
specific adj. 特殊的，特定的；明確的；詳細的
process n. 過程，進行；辦法，步驟
development n. 進步；開發

英語單詞:

trip up 絆倒；挑剔
forebear n. 祖先；祖宗
turned ones backs on 拒絕幫助