We often abbreviate words by dropping the endings.

写词一般是不要末尾的那一部分。

The first family lit the National Christmas Tree after an abbreviated countdown.

在倒数之后，第一家庭点亮了国家圣诞树。

His book was abbreviated and appeared in a public magazine.

他的书被减刊出在一本公众的杂志上。

Americans use a lot of abbreviated, or shortened expressions.

美国人使用略词，或者是简短的表达。

The so-called photic sneeze reflex, AKA the Autosomal Cholinergic Helio-Ophthalmic Outburst, abbreviated" ACHOO" … yes, seriously… is experienced by about 1 in 4 people, leading scientists to believe it is genetically heritable.

所谓的“强光喷嚏反射”，又称常染色体胆碱能性赫里奥眼突出症，简称“Achoo”… 是的，讲真… 大约有四分之一的人经历过，这使得科学家相认为它是会遗传的。

One of the most inspired was superannuation, a long word meaning private pension provision that the all- abbreviating Aussies call their “super”.

最成功之一是退休金政，这一个长词指的是个人退 休保障基金，澳洲人惯用其简略词“超级”。

The theory goes that the vendors started using the symbol to abbreviate the term " Each at the cost of" .

从理论上讲，小商贩们开始使用这个符号写“每个价格为”一词。

Ledge, I mean who doesn't want to be called a ledge, just another word of saying legend, just the abbreviated version of.

Ledge，谁不想成为一个" ledge" 呢，是" 传奇" 的另一个说法，是简写版。

Later this was abbreviated to simply bloomers.

后接被简称为灯笼裤。

But so instead of saying " this afternoon" , they might say that but they'll also say " this arvo" , so they abbreviate " this afternoon" to " this arvo" , A R V O.

所以他们不会说“this afternoon”，而是说“this arvo”，他们把“this afternoon”写成“this arvo”，A R V O 。

Here in Australia it's really common to hear the abbreviated names of these jobs.

在澳大利亚常常能听到工作的简称。

Then, we decided to propose the concept of instant messaging addiction, by the way, do you mind if we abbreviate instant messaging to I am in our discussion?

然后，我们决定提出即时通讯成瘾的概念，顺便说一下，你介意我们把即时通讯写为“我在讨论中”吗？

Best-case scenario, it will be me, my husband, abbreviated hours and a handful of customers.

最好的情况也是我和我丈夫短工作时间，而且开店期间也只有门可罗雀的顾客。

But scientists are an efficient bunch, and given the chance, we abbreviate almost anything.

科学家是高效率的人，只要有机会，几乎都会写任何东西。

So if I abbreviated all of the steps into one word, it would say HAMK, HAMK, which doesn't really work unless that works for you, maybe you can remember that.

如果我把所有的步骤写成一个词，叫做 HAMK，HAMK，不过记住，除非这个方法对你有用，否则它并不管用。

Almost a third (27%) hate hearing the abbreviated term for laughing out loud " lolz" , while a further 27% aren't impressed to be having banter via the word " bants" , which means to share playful remarks with another person or group.

近三分之一(27%)的人讨厌听到大声笑的写“lolz”，还有27%的人不喜欢用“bants”这个词开玩笑，这意味着和另一个人或一群人分享有趣的话语。

Eventually, the researchers did convince the editors of some journals to allow it, but the group's title was abbreviated, as if it was a first and last name, in online indexing software: " B. Rangers" .

最终，研究人员的确说服了几家刊物的编辑，但团体的头衔被简略得像一个姓和一个名——在网络检索软件上显示为“B.Rangers”。

The two brothers from the southwestern Sichuan province live with a little-known disease called neurofibromatosis that is commonly abbreviated as NF — a set of genetic disorders that cause tumors to grow on nerves in the brain and throughout the body.

这对自四川省西南部的兄弟患有一种鲜为人知的疾病，叫做神经纤维瘤病，通常写为 NF，这是一系列遗传疾病，会导致肿瘤在大脑和全身的神经上生长。

So words that are longer tend to sound more formal and polite, while shorter, abbreviated words are more likely to sound informal and friendly.

也是说，用的表达越长听起越正式越有礼貌。相反，简短的，写的词语听起会不那么正式和友好。

In fact, scientists use a really simple device called scientific notation that allows them to abbreviate these numbers so that they're easy to write down and work with.

事实上，科学家们使用了一种非常简单的称为科学记数法的设备，它让科学家们可以写这些数字，以使这些数字易于记下和使用。