"This certainly puts an eventual strain upon the universities, which must devote lots of resources to remedial education," he said。

　　他说：“这最终给大学施加了压力，学校必须在补救教育上投入大量资源。”

　　Jack Bovill of the Spelling Society, which commissioned the research, said the high inaccuracy rates in both countries showed the need for the English spelling system to be modernized to improve literacy。

　　委托开展该调查的“拼写学会”的杰克·邦维尔说，英美两国在单词拼写方面的高出错率表明，必须推动英语拼写系统的现代化，以提高民众的读写能力。

　　"When asked, only a quarter of adults thought they had a problem with spelling. The answers in the test prove that this is far from the case," he said. "What is holding the UK and the USA back is the irregular spelling system."

　　“在调查过程中，仅有四分之一的成年人觉得自己在单词拼写方面有问题。但测试结果则表明情况要严重得多。不规范的拼写系统是造成这一问题的主要原因。”

　　The US survey involving a sample of 1,000 adults was carried out online by Ipsos MORI last month, with the method based on a survey of 1,000 Britons in April last year。

　　这项美国调查由益普索·莫里调查机构于上月在网上开展，共有一千名成年人参加，调查方法主要依据去年四月的一项共有一千名英国人参与的调查。