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Contemporary Standard Chinese Dictionary
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[suōxiě]
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用拼音文字把一些常用词语或专名用比较简便的写法标出。通常是截取原词语的一个或几个字母来表示。如USA是The United States of America的缩写。
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把长篇文学作品改写成篇幅较短的
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缩写本。
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Examples
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NATO 是英文 North Atlantic Treaty Organization 的缩写。
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NATO is the abbreviation for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
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CD is an {or} the abbreviation for compact disc
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CD是compact disc的缩写
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