爱思英语编者按：在一个投票里，英国人选出10个他们觉得发音最有挑战性的单词，但中国人可不这么觉得了，10个单词，你如何看？
Many have said that sorry is the hardest word but theyd be wrong, linguistically speaking at least.
不少人觉得对不起是最难说出口的话，但，你们都错了，至少从语言学来讲。
A poll of its members found 10 words that Britons consistently find the most challenging to pronounce.
在一个投票里，英国人选出10个他们觉得发音最有挑战性的单词。
The word we find hardest to pronounce is phenomenon.
最难发音的单词是phenomenon（现象）。
Next in the TOP 10 of tongue-twisters are remuneration, and statistics.
在十大饶舌单词里，紧跟着的是remuneration（酬金）和statistics（统计）。
Speakers also have a problem getting their tongue around ethnicity, hereditary and particularly, according to the body charged with recording public utterances.
依据公共话语有关人体发音的记录，说话者在说ethnicity（种族地位）hereditary（遗传的）particularly（特别地）这几个词时都有舌头非常难转动的问题。
Completing the list are conjugal, specific, processes and development.
列表剩下的单词有conjugal（婚姻的）specific（特殊的）processes（过程）development（进步）。
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.
英国某研究所专家表示大家跟不少不同专业的人合作，听过多种声音。
然而，当大家研究英语时，大家发现总有几个单词大家发音时都会被它们绊倒，说话者要重复该单词以纠正发音，又或者直接不说这类单词，继续他们的话题。
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.
饶舌单词投票是由拼字游戏（Scrabble）制作者编制的，他说，十分之一玩家假如感觉这个单词难发音，他们就不想用。
约克大学社会语言学专家表示，英语已经进化了一些听起来非常可笑的发音的单词，但有的单词仍然是一个挑战。
他说：大家总会发现一些非常常见的单词非常难转动舌头来发音，就譬如大家平时的单词handbag（手袋），听起来就像hambag。
大家的祖先简化了waistcoat（坎肩、背心）成为weskit，但大家却对此呲之以鼻。
尝试一下你读得顺口不~
phenomenon n. 现象；奇迹；杰出的人才
remuneration n. 报酬；酬劳，赔偿
statistics n. 统计；统计学；[统计] 统计资料
ethnicity n. 种族划分
hereditary adj. 遗传的；世袭的；世代相传的
particularly adv. 特别地，独特地；详细地
conjugal adj. 婚姻的；结婚的；夫妻之间的
specific adj. 特殊的，特定的；明确的；详细的
process n. 过程，进行；办法，步骤
development n. 进步；开发
英语单词:
trip up 绊倒；挑剔
forebear n. 祖先；祖宗
turned ones backs on 拒绝帮助