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