据说“肌联蛋白”的英文学名有189819个字母!文学作品中最长的英文单词是一道虚构的菜名,由183个字母组成。而主流字典中收录的最长英文单词“矽肺病”由45个字母组成,最长非杜撰单词“假性甲状旁腺功能减退”包含30个字母……
1. METHIONYLTHREONYLTHREONYGLUTAMINYLARGINYL … ISOLEUCINE肌联蛋白
Note the ellipses. All told, the full chemical name for the human protein titin is 189,819 letters, and takes about three-and-a-half hours to pronounce. The problem with including chemical names is that there’s essentially no limit to how long they can be. For example, naming a single strand of DNA, with its millions and millions of repeating base pairs, could eventually tab out at well over 1 billion letters.注意此处的省略号。