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1、What'sTheLongestWordInTheEnglishLanguage?What'sTheLongestWordInTheEnglishLanguage?Well,thatdependsonwhatwemeanby"word."Ifawordiscoinedjusttobelong,likesupercalifragilisticexpialidocious,shouldthatcount?Herearethetopcandidates.OnecomesfromShakespeare(ofcourse.)InLove'sLabour'sLost,aclownnamedCostard,
2、arrestedforhavingunlawfulflingwithamilkmaid,getstosay...honorificabilitudinitatibusThat's27letters.Thewordmeanssomethinglike"loadedwithhonors,"but,suspiciously,itcomesinthemiddleofaconversationaboutwordiness,soitmightbeawordcreatedtobewordy.Here'soneyouknowbetter:antidisetablishmentarianismIthas28le
3、tters,butwhatisit?Justabundleofsuffixesandprefixespiledupintoalittleattention-grabbinghummock.Themostfamouslongword(atleastinourtimes)is,ofcourse,Disney's...supercaliphragilisticexpialidociousItuses34letters,butdoesn'tmeananythingbeyondgivingJulieAndrewsandDickVanDyke(andaslewofanimatedcharacters)so
4、methingtodanceto.Sowhatifwewantawordthatisnotfamousforbeinglong,butawordthatdescribessomethingreal.What'sthelongestoneofthose?SciencewriterSamKean,inhisbookTheDisappearingSpoon,workedreallyhardonthisandaftermuchsleuthing,helandedonawordthatcomesnotfromdancingEnglishnanniesbutfromvirus-huntingscienti
5、sts.It'saprotein,foundinavirus,butthisisaverydangerous,economicallyimportantvirus,thefirsteverdiscovered...C785H1220N212O248S2otherwiseknownasthedreadedtobaccomosaicvirus.Itappearedinallitsletterysplendorin1964inareferencesourceforchemists,"ChemicalAbstracts."Itisonethousand,onehundredandeightyfivel
6、etterslong.SoasSamsays,"Takeabreath,"and...glutaminylphenylalanylvalylphenylalanylleucylserylseryl-valyltryptophylalanylaspartylprolylisoleucylglutamyl-leucylleucylasparaginylvalylcysteinylthreonylserylseryl-leucylglycylasparaginylglutaminylphenylalanylglutami-nylthreonylglutaminylglutaminylalanylar
7、ginylthreo-nylthreonylglutaminylvalylglutaminylglutaminylpheny-lalanylserylglutaminylvalyltryptophyllysylprolylphenyla-lanylprolylglutaminylserylthreonylvalylarginylphenylala-nylprolylglycylaspartylva