abbreviate
US /əˈbriviˌet/
・UK /ə'bri:vɪeɪt/
C1 高級英檢高級
v.t.及物動詞縮寫 ； 省略 ； 縮短 ； 縮減
Many businesses choose to abbreviate long names
影片字幕
為了逃避愛，我們能有多拼命？！ (The Lengths We Go To Avoid Love)
- The idea of trying to avoid love sounds paradoxical in the extreme. Why would anyone take steps to deny themselves an experience which seems so plainly positive and life-enhancing? Plenty of people are denied love by external forces. Why would anyone take active measures to sabotage love if it lay before them? The answer can only be found by looking back in time. Though we all crave love in theory, our capacity to accept it in practice is critically dependent on the quality of our early emotional experiences. To abbreviate sharply, we can only willingly tolerate being loved if, as children, the process of loving and being loved felt sufficiently reliable, safe and kind. Some of us were not so blessed. Some of us were stymied in our search for love in ways we have not yet recovered from or fully understood. Perhaps the person we wanted to love fell ill or grew depressed. Or at the height of our dependence on them, they went away or had a new family or turned their attention to a younger sibling.
試圖迴避愛情的想法聽起來矛盾至極。為什麼會有人採取措施拒絕自己的經歷，而這種經歷看起來又是如此的積極和有益於生活呢？很多人都被外力剝奪了愛。如果愛就在眼前，為什麼有人會採取積極措施去破壞它呢？只有回顧過去才能找到答案。雖然我們在理論上都渴望愛，但我們在實踐中接受愛的能力，關鍵取決於我們早期情感經歷的品質。簡而言之，只有在孩提時代，愛與被愛的過程足夠可靠、安全和親切，我們才能心甘情願地忍受被愛。我們中的一些人就沒有這麼幸運。我們中的一些人在尋找愛的過程中受到了阻礙，而這些阻礙我們還沒有恢復過來，也沒有完全理
- To abbreviate sharply, we can only willingly tolerate being loved if, as children, the process of loving and being loved felt sufficiently reliable, safe, and
Diels-Alder：endo 規則 | 有機化學 | 可汗學院 (Diels-Alder: endo rule | Organic chemistry | Khan Academy)
- So if we draw the product, again, not worrying about stereochemistry, we put our double bond in here, and then these aldehydes, I'm going to abbreviate as CHO.
是以，如果我們畫出產物，同樣不用擔心立體化學問題，我們把雙鍵放在這裡，然後把這些醛縮寫為 CHO。
- then these aldehydes, I'm going to abbreviate as CHO.
但請注意，對於我們的產品，我們並沒有真正展示任何立體化學。
LBCC - 提升聽力技巧！ (LBCC - IMPROVING LISTENING SKILLS)
- I'm going to abbreviate it.
我說，閉上眼睛。於是他閉上了眼睛。
- abbreviate it this is a common sense thing but most people are not so good
縮寫它，這是常識，但大多數人都不太擅長
