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Article 33 A book publisher may alter or abridge a work with the permission of the copyright owner.
第三十三条图书出版者经作者许可，可以对作品修改、删节。
Liberty involves what governments do or, more accurately, what they are forbidden to do to their citizens -- they are forbidden to abridge individual freedoms.
自由涉及政府行为，或更准确地说，涉及政府不应向公民实施的行为，即政府不可限制个人自由。
The generation which is passing in its turn over the earth, is not forced to abridge it for the sake of the generations, its equal, after all, who will have their turn later on.--"I
目前的一代人有权在地球上过路，不能强迫他们为了后代而缩短自己的路程，后代和他们是平等的，将来才轮到后代过路。

As Americans abjure our civic responsibilities to the state, government bureaucrats gladly abridge our liberties.
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If allowed to stand, the ruling in the Hedegaard case will be used to abridge fundamental civil rights throughout Europe, and possibly far beyond.
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It appears that many Progressives are determined to abridge guarantees of free speech, free press, and to prohibit the free exercise of religion, eviscerating the guarantees of the First Amendment.
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to make a book, play, or piece of writing shorter by removing details and information that is not important