1. A Book publisher may alter or abridge a work with the permission of the copyright owner.
图书出版者经作者许可,可以对作品修改、删节。
2. To make more concise;abridge or shorten.
精简使更简结；删节或缩短
3. He decide to abridge his stay here after he receive a letter from home
他接到家信後决定缩短在这里的逗留时间
4. Thus he may abridge his travel, with much profit.
只要做到上述各点，他就能在短期游历中受益良多。
5. I abridge, I stop, I have too much the advantage;
我得少说话，我不再开口了，我的理由太充足。
This is an abridged, edited version of Zhou Xiaochuan's speech at a seminar held by the National School of Development, Peking University, on Nov 27.