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

今天时间有限，我只能读缩略的版本。

2.First, of all useful machines and instruments of trade, which facilitate and abridge labour.

首先，在所有有用的机器贸易工具中，它们促进减少了劳动。机翻

3.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本书中的论点进行删节的。机翻

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

我幵车的时候通常会听一本有声书(我总是听未经删节的版本；我认为删节版的有声书太糟糕了），走到哪里随身还会上一本。

5.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减少他们自己的劳动。机翻

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

他写作是因为他喜欢写作;他没有删节，因为他不在乎删节。机翻

7.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。机翻

8.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，我只会指出， 所有那些大大了劳动的机器的发明， 似乎最初都是由于劳动分工所致。机翻

9.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，还是在工作的安排分配方面，都是自由人的发现，这些改进促进减少了劳动。机翻

10.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" 。

11.An improved farm may very justly be regarded in the same light as those useful machines which facilitate and abridge labour, and by means of which an equal circulating capital can afford a much greater revenue to its employer.

一个改进的农场可以非常公正地被视为与那些促进减少劳动的有用机器相同的观点，并且通过这些机器，相等的流动资本可以为其雇主提供更多的收入。机翻

12.The improved dexterity of a workman may be considered in the same light as a machine or instrument of trade which facilitates and abridges labour, and which, though it costs a certain expense, repays that expense with a profit.

工人灵巧性的提高可以从促进减少劳动的机器或贸易工具的角度来考虑，虽然它会花费一定的费用，但可以用利润来偿还这笔费用。机翻

13.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.

第一修正案规定，“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法院，尽管没有具体说明。机翻

14.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一个，而以更高的价格购买另一个，否则他可能会这样做；他的利润可能因此而有所减少。机翻