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(yǔ)中公認(rèn)的最長(zhǎng)(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(guó)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(zhǎng)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(guò)antidisestablishmentarianism(反對(duì)教會(huì)與國(guó)家分開(kāi)學(xué)說(shuō))，成為最長(zhǎng)的非技術(shù)性英語(yǔ)單詞。它由5個(gè)拉丁語(yǔ)詞根組成，用來(lái)形容認(rèn)為某件事物沒(méi)有什么價(jià)值。雖然這個(gè)單詞被《牛津英語(yǔ)詞典》收錄，但《韋氏詞典》卻將其拒之門外，因?yàn)樗谟⒄Z(yǔ)中不過(guò)是一個(gè)“曇花一現(xiàn)”的單詞。

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