英語單詞推薦:世界上最長的單詞
PARASTRATIOSPHECOMYIA STRATIOSPHECOMYIOIDES
水虻
The longest accepted binomial construction, at 42 letters, is a species of soldier fly native to Thailand.
Parastratiosphecomyia sphecomyioides是英語中公認(rèn)的最長(生物學(xué))二種名稱結(jié)構(gòu),包含42個(gè)字母,指的是一種源自泰國的水虻。
PSEUDOPSEUDOHYPOPARATHYROIDISM
假性甲狀旁腺功能減退
This 30-letter thyroid disorder is the longest non-coined word to appear in a major dictionary.
這種甲狀腺功能紊亂病癥的英文名由30個(gè)字母組成,是主流字典中收錄的最長非杜撰詞。
FLOCCINAUCINIHILIPILIFICATION
輕蔑
By virtue of having one more letter than antidisestablishmentarianism, this is the longest non-technical English word. A mash-up of five Latin roots, it refers to the act of describing something as having little or no value. While it made the cut in the Oxford English Dictionary, Merriam-Webster volumes refuse to recognize it, chalking up its existence to little more than linguistic ephemera.
這個(gè)單詞憑借“一字之差”,超過antidisestablishmentarianism(反對教會(huì)與國家分開學(xué)說),成為最長的非技術(shù)性英語單詞。它由5個(gè)拉丁語詞根組成,用來形容認(rèn)為某件事物沒有什么價(jià)值。雖然這個(gè)單詞被《牛津英語詞典》收錄,但《韋氏詞典》卻將其拒之門外,因?yàn)樗谟⒄Z中不過是一個(gè)“曇花一現(xiàn)”的單詞。
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