详细释义
Verb:
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reduce in scope while retaining essential elements;
"The manuscript must be shortened"
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lessen, diminish, or curtail;
"the new law might abridge our freedom of expression"
双语例句
- He decide to abridge his stay here after he receive a letter from home.
他接到家信后决定缩短在这里的逗留时间。 - This is an abridged edition of "war and peace".
这是“战争与和平”的节略版。 - It was abridged from the original work.
这是原书的节录本。
用法讲解
- shorten,abbreviate,abridge,cut
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- 这些动词均含有“缩短”之意。
- shorten通常指缩短时间、尺寸或过程。
- abbreviate指省去应有的或后续的部分,从而使整体缩短。也可指缩短时间。
- abridge多指对书籍的删节或缩短,删去不重要部分而保存其精华。
- cut普通用词,指任何缩短而缩减的过程。
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