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查询技巧:
1、输入单个单词准确查询。
2、使用%模糊查询,匹配任意长度字符:
   %a    以a结尾的单词;
   ab%    以ab开头的单词;
   %ac%    含有ac的单词。
3、使用_模糊查询,匹配单个任意字符:
   _a_    三位且a在中间的单词;
   _ad    三位且ad结尾的单词;
   ac_    三位且ac开头的单词;
   _a    两位且a结尾的单词;
   a_    两位且a开头的单词。
4、带连字符-的单词,需含-字符才能模糊查询,如well-know需输入 well-% 。
5、在手机键盘上,如果g上有%和v上有_,则可长按输入。

abbreviating
TOEFL

vt. 缩略,缩写;使……简短(abbreviate的现在分词)

1. Develop your own way of abbreviating words.
养成自己词语缩略方法。
2. In fact, the more adept they were at abbreviating, the better they did in spelling and writing.
实际上,他们使用缩写越熟练,就越擅长拼写和写作。
3. Here Mr. Ephraim Chambers was abbreviating two words camera obscura which is Latin for “darkened room.”
在这里,他使用了两个字的词汇camera obscura来表示,这两个词在拉丁语里“黑暗的屋子”的缩写。
4. The scribe has been guilty of the grossest errors, in addition to abbreviating some verses and omitting others.
在抄写犯了最严重的错误,除了一些诗句和缩写省略等。
5. Abbreviating a sentence means cutting out the redundant parts of the sentence without changing its original meaning.
缩句就是在不改变原意的条件下将句子的羡余部分去掉。