Americans are worse at spelling than Britons, with more than half unable to spell "embarrassed", "liaison" and "millennium"。

　　美国人在拼写单词方面不如英国人，超过一半的美国人不会拼“embarrassed”、“liaison”和“millennium”。

　　Despite the popularity of school spelling bee competitions, adults in the US fared poorly in a survey comparing how English speakers on both sides of the Atlantic deal with commonly misspelt words。

　　尽管拼字比赛在美国学校十分流行，但一项比较大西洋两岸说英语人群的调查显示，在拼写容易拼错的单词方面，美国成年人表现得相当糟糕。

　　Sixty-two per cent of Americans got "embarrassed" wrong, against 54 per cent of Britons who struggled with the word in a survey last year。

　　调查显示，62%的美国人将“embarrassed”拼错，而去年的一项调查显示，英国有54%的人不会拼写该词。