搞定最容易混淆的英语单词!

English students at any level will no doubt discover that English has an extremely “interesting,” but often times confusing spelling system. Here are some weird English words that you need to watch out for when studying, along with some patterns that will help you understand English spelling a little better and improve your writing skills.

不论是哪个级别的英语学生无疑都会发现英语中有一个非常“有趣”、但更多时候是让人感到困惑的拼写体系。在学习的过程中，你需要注意一些奇怪的英语词汇，加上一些格式将有助于你更好地理解英文拼写以及提高你的写作技巧。

The amount of words with unusual spellings is almost impossible to count,but let’s go over some important spelling patterns and anomalies that you will need to know to get a firm grasp of the English writing system.

拼写不规则的单词数量几乎难以数计，让我们再温习一下一些重要的拼写格式和你需要了解的不规则拼写情形，才能更牢固地掌握英语写作体系。

Through,Dough, Enough

Through（通过）,Dough（生面团）,Enough（足够）

Now,this is a very interesting case. All three of these words clearly use the “ough”suffix,and as you probably know the sound of the word isn’t pronounced like the g of giraffe.

这是一个非常有趣的例子。所有这三个单词显然都使用了ough 这个后缀，你或许知道这些单词中gh的发音与giraffe（长颈鹿）中的g 不同。

But what makes the spellings of these words even weirder is that each of these words has a completely different pronunciation, even though they all end with “ough’. You would think all these words should rhyme, but in reality they actually sound quite different from each other.

但是，让这些单词的拼写显得更为奇怪是每一个词语都有着完全不同的发音，尽管他们都以ough结尾。可能你认为所有这些单词都应该押韵，但实际上，他们的发音听起来完全不同。

Through(Throo) The road passes through a valley.

这条路从一个山谷中穿过。

Dough(Doe)You need dough in order to make bread.

你需要揉面团来做面包。

Enough--(Enuf) I have enough sodas for everyone at the party. 我为宴会上的每一位客人都备足了苏打水。

Plateau,Bureau, Gateau

Plateau（稳定时期、高原）,Bureau（局、处）,Gateau（奶油蛋糕）Here is another set of interesting spellings. The part that confuses a lot of English students is the combination of two

vowels to form eau, and how to correctly pronounce it. Now, here’s something intriguing: If you put these three vowels together, they end up sounding like a 4th vowel (o).

这是另一组有趣的拼写。这部分内容中让很多英语学生混淆的是两个元音的组合eau、以及如何正确发音。其中有一点非常有趣：如果你把这三个元音放在一起，他们最终的发音听起来像第四个元音(o)。Plateau(Plaat-o) The peace process had reached a plateau.

这个和平进程已经到了一个稳定时期。

Bureau(Byur-o) I work at the National Bureau of Statistics. 我在国家统计局工作。

Gateau(Gaat-o) My grandmother made me a chocolate gateau for my birthday.

奶奶为我的生日做了一个巧克力奶油蛋糕。

Xylophone,Xenophobia

Xylophone（木琴）,Xenophobia（仇外）

The main feature of these words is the x consonant at the beginning of each word. X alone has a sound more similar to the sound eks,but when it is put in front of words, it usually makes the sound z.

这些词的主要特点是辅音x 位于每个单词的开头。X 本身的发音类似于eks，但当它被放置在单词首字母时，它通常发音为z。Xylophone(Zai-la-fone) I used to play the Xylophone when I was