abridge是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vt. (书等) 删节，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- YOUR sense of honour and honesty would have led you, I know, when aware of your situation, to attempt all the economy that would appear to you possible: and, perhaps, as long as your frugality retrenched only on your own comfort, you might have been suffered to practice it, but beyond that and how little could the utmost of your single management do to stop the ruin which had begun before your marriage? Beyond THAT, had you endeavoured, however reasonably, to abridge HIS enjoyments, is it not to be feared, that instead of prevailing on feelings so selfish to consent to it, you would have lessened your own influence on his heart, and made him regret the connection which had involved him in such difficulties?"
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- * * * * 'I write with so much difficulty, the cold is so severe, I am so fearful of being detected and consigned to an un-derground cell and total darkness, that I must abridge this narrative.
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