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

今天时间有限，只能读缩略的版。

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" 。

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

幵车的时候通常会听有声书(总是听未经删节的版；认为删节版的有声书太糟糕了），走到哪里随身还会。

A work that has been abridged is called an abridgment.

被删减的品称为删节。

Well, I hope she did an abridged version.

，希望她做了个缩减版。

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，只会指出， 所有那些大大简化和简化了劳动的机器的发明， 似乎最初都是由于劳动分工所致。

Well, the 15th Amendment of 1870 said that the right to vote shall not be denied or abridged on the basis of race, color or previous condition of servitude.

1870 年第 15 条修正案规定，投票权不得因种族、肤色或先前的奴役状况而被剥夺或剥夺。

So, all of that is, very simplistically, too broadly, and probably too quickly and abridged version of how we all got to where we are right now.

因此， 简而言之，过于笼统， 或许也过于仓促且简略地概括了们如何走到今天这步。

It also says that no state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States.

它还规定任何州不得制定或执行任何限制美国公民权利或豁免权的法律。

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

匈牙利的矿山是由自由人建造的， 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的劳动。

The relevant clause of the First Amendment of the Constitution reads, Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech.

宪法第修正案的相关条款规定：“国会不得制定法律… … 剥夺言论自由。”

I'm doing a bit of an abridged intro now just because, you know, they know who we are.

现在简略地介绍下，因为你们知道们是谁。

The First Amendment states that" Congress shall make no law... abridging the freedom of speech, " but all constitutional lawyers agree that this constitutional prohibition applies to the president and the courts as well, even though this isn't specifically stated.

第修正案规定，“国会不得制定任何法律......剥夺言论自由，“但所有宪法律师都同意，这项宪法禁令也适用于总统和法院，尽管没有具体说明。

And no state has a right to make any new law or enforce any old law that shall abridge their privileges or immunities.

并且没有任何州有权制定任何新法律或执行任何旧法律来侵犯他们的特权或豁免权。

Abridged and simplified from Aurora's argument in the fifth book, that theory runs something like this.

该理论是根据奥罗拉在第五书中的论点进行删节和简化的。

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；所有最重要的改进，无论是在机器方面，还是在工的安排和分配方面，都是自由人的发现，这些改进促进和减少了劳动。

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的价格出售个，而以更高的价格购买另个，否则他可能会这样做；他的利润可能因此而有所减少。

He wrote because he liked to write; he did not abridge, because he cared not to abridge.

他写是因为他喜欢写;他没有删节，因为他不在乎删节。