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Collins Chinese-English Dictionary

缩写 [suōxiě]
  1. 1. noun abbreviation
    NATO 是英文 North Atlantic Treaty Organization 的缩写
    NATO is the abbreviation for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
  2. 2. verb abridge

Comprehensive Chinese-English Dictionary

缩写 [suōxiě]
  1. 1. abbreviation
  2. 2. abridge

Contemporary Standard Chinese Dictionary

缩写 [suōxiě]
  1. 1. 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
  2. 2. 把长篇文学作品改写成篇幅较短的
    缩写本。

Examples

CD is an {or} the abbreviation for compact disc
CD是compact disc的缩写
"Work" is abbreviated to "wk." when someone writes a email.
一些人发邮件时把"work"被缩写为"wk."。
The first word of a sentence is always spelled out, never abbreviated.
一句话的第一个词总是被拼出,从不缩写
He refused to put the initials FRS after his name.
他拒绝在他的名字后面加上首字母缩写FRS。
"Won't" is a contraction of "will not".
“won't”是“will not”的缩写形式。

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