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Have you ever wondered what the longest word in the English language is? Believe it or not, there’s no simple answer to the question. You might think it would be as easy as opening a dictionary and looking for the longest word. However, it's far more complicated (复杂) than that.
Over time, many people have suggested many different words for the title of the longest word in English. How can that be? That’ s because the first thing that people have different opinions on is what should be considered a word. Some of the words were simply made up to be the longest! For example, there is one really famous long word that most kids know. It comes from Disney’s movie Mary Poppins: supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, which means wonderful. But since that 34-letter word was made up simply to be sung as a song in a movie, should it?
How about long words that actually describe something in the world? Scientists have come up with several possible choices. The name of a virus (病毒) totals 1, 185 letters. There's also a protein (蛋白质) whose name totals 1, 909 letters. Should these win the title? “Not so fast!” say some people. Are these words ever actually used? Can they even be pronounced? And are they meaningful just because they are made up to be long?
If you are wondering about some long words in common English, here are some examples. Those words include uncharacteristically (20 letters), deinstitutionalization (22 letters) and counterrevolutionaries (also 22 letters). Or perhaps the word “smiles” is the longest word in English. Sure, it has only six letters, but there is a “mile” between the first and the last letters!
你是否也曾想过，英语中最长的单词是哪个？不管你信不信，这个问题的答案并不简单。你也许会觉得，这不是简单到只要拿本英语字典翻开来找就可以了。然而，事情远比你想地复杂。
随着时间的推移，人们为这个最长的的英语单词头衔推荐了许多不同的单词。为什么会有这么多个答案，这还得从如何定义一个单词说起，人们对怎样才算一个单词有不同的看法，有些单词仅仅是为了最长而创造出来的！举个例子，有个长单词很有名，大多数小孩都知道，出自迪士尼电影《欢乐满人间》的“supercalifragilisticexpialidocious”，意思是“精彩的”。但这个34个字母的单词只是因为一首歌曲被创造出来，能算吗？
那确确实实用来描述世间某一事物的长单词行不行呢？科学家们给出了一些可能的选择。比如一种病毒的名字总共包含1185个字母，还有一种蛋白的名字包含了1909个字母，这些单词能获得最长单词的头衔吗？“别急！”，一些人说。这些单词有实际的运用吗?它们估计都读不出来吧？它们被赋予的意义是不是也仅仅是想让它们成为最长的单词呢？
如果你想知道一些英语中常见的长单词，这有一些例子供参考。这些单词包括uncharacteristically（20个字母），deinstitutionalization (22个字母)和 counterrevolutionaries (也是22个字母)。或者可能“微笑”才是英语中最长的单词，没错，就是它了，它只有6个字母，但是第一个和最后一个字母之间有一米长！