abridge
abridge 英 [əˈbrɪdʒ] 美 [əˈbrɪdʒ]
vt. 删节；缩短；节略
进行时:abridging 过去式:abridged 过去分词:abridged 第三人称单数:abridges 名词复数:abridges
- So the editor wants to cut your epic 800-page history of the stapler to a 150-page summary instead. Don't cry — he just wants to abridge your masterpiece, trimming it down to the more readable essential elements.
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- vt. 删节；缩短；节略
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1. He decides to abridge his stay here after he received a letter from home.
他接到家信后决定缩短在这里的逗留时间。
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2. Article 33 A book publisher may alter or abridge a work with the permission of the copyright owner.
第三十三条 图书出版者经作者许可，可以对作品修改、删节。
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3. The generation which is passing in its turn over the earth, is not forced to abridge it for the sake of the generations, its equal, after all, who will have their turn later on.--"I
目前的一代人有权在地球上过路，不能强迫他们为了后代而缩短自己的路程，后代和他们是平等的，将来才轮到后代过路。
- abridge (v.) c. 1300, abreggen, "make shorter, shorten, condense," from Old French abregier, abrigier "abridge, diminish, shorten" (12c., Modern French abréger), from Late Latin abbreviare "make short," from Latin ad "to" (see ad-) + breviare "shorten," from brevis "short, low, little, shallow" (from PIE root *mregh-u- "short").
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