But in this context I'm just going to read an abridged version of those texts.

今天时间有限，我只能读缩略版本。

After I had been approached to record it, I discovered the company intended an abridged version.

他们联系我之后，我发现那家公司打算录是一个删节版。

Those who liked suspension wouldn't be crossed at a crossing, even an abridged version would leave them beaming.

而那些喜欢吊桥人则不用担心会在道口被拦下，可能桥断他们都还会喜笑颜开。

For faithful fans of the original work, I recommend Tencent's version, which later released as an abridged version.

对于原著忠实粉丝，我推荐腾讯推出精简版。

We gave you the abridged version.

我们精简版。

We’ll tell you the abridged story, and you can tell us what you think of Charles Sobhraj at the end.

我们会告诉这个简短故事，可以在最后告诉我们对 Charles Sobhraj 看法。

I usually listen to one in the car (always unabridged; I think abridged audio-books are the pits), and carry another wherever I go.

我幵车时候通常会听一本有声书(我总是听未经删节版本；我认为删节版有声书太糟糕），走到哪里随身还会带上一本。

How I long to listen to the abridged versions of Ivanhoe and Peter Pan in the last hour of the class?

我多么渴望在课程最后一个小时听艾豪和彼得潘精简版？

Soon, he started writing an abridged version that he thought people might want to buy at a reduced price, but time had bested him.

不久后，他着手为之编写删节本，认为如果降价出售人们也许就会想买，但此时已有人先他一步。

The Hungarian mines are wrought by freemen, who employ a great deal of machinery, by which they facilitate and abridge their own labour.

匈牙利矿山是由自由人建造， 他们使用大量机器， 他们利用这些机器来促进和减少他们自己劳动。

I felt, had Nabokov wanted it abridged, he would have written it shorter, and I suggested to his son Dmitri that he might insist we record it as written.

我当时就想，如果纳博科夫想要删节话，他自己就会缩短篇幅，于是，我就建议他儿子德米特里·纳博科夫坚持按照原文篇幅进行录制。

I shall only observe, therefore, that the invention of all those machines by which labour is so much facilitated and abridged, seems to have been originally owing to the division of labour.

因此，我只会指出， 所有那些大大简化和简化劳动机器发明， 似乎最初都是由于劳动分工所致。

Now, if you don't know my story, here is the abridged version: My husband Aaron, died of brain cancer right after I had a miscarriage and after my dad died of cancer.

现在，如果不知道我故事，这里是删节版：我丈夫亚伦在我流产后和我父亲因癌症去世后不久就死于脑癌。

Slaves, however, are very seldom inventive; and all the most important improvements, either in machinery, or in the arrangement and distribution of work, which facilitate and abridge labour have been the discoveries of freemen.

然而，奴隶很少有创造力；所有最重要改进，无论是在机器方面，还是在工作安排和分配方面，都是自由人发现，这些改进促进和减少劳动。

By this restraint he is probably obliged to sell the one somewhat cheaper, and to buy the other somewhat dearer, than he otherwise might have done; and his profits are probably somewhat abridged by means of it.

由于这种限制，他可能不得不以更低价格出售一个，而以更高价格购买另一个，否则他可能会这样做；他利润可能因此而有所减少。

As early computer pioneer Charles Babbage said: " At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged" . However, none of these devices were called " computers" .

早期计算机先驱Charles Babbage曾说： " 每当人类知识增长创造新工具时 人工劳动力会得到衰减" 然而，这些设备那时都不叫" 计算机" 。

The improved dexterity of a workman may be considered in the same light as a machine or instrument of trade which facilitates and abridges labour, and which, though it costs a certain expense, repays that expense with a profit.

工人灵巧性提高可以从促进和减少劳动机器或贸易工具角度来考虑，虽然它会花费一定费用，但可以用利润来偿还这笔费用。