中英对照：中英文的缩写词或缩略词Acronym or Abbreviations in Chinese and English

越短越容易Shorter and Easier

在日常生活中，人们时常会在写作和阅读文章中遇到特别长的术语。为了方便书写和打字，也为了方便记忆，人们会把长术语缩短，变成缩略词。把长词组变成短词，需要省略一些词素，而剩下的词素要能够代表被省略的整个成分。

In everyday life, people often meet very long terms when writing or reading an article. For the convenience of writing and typing and also of memorizing them, they would shorten long terms into abbreviations. When a long phrase is turned into a short word, some morphemes need to be omitted and those left need to be able to represent the entire component just omitted.

英语缩略词的构词方式有四种：截短、拼缀、首字母缩略词、首字母拼音词。

There are four ways to form an abbreviation in English: clipping, blending, initialism and acronym.

前两种是把词中能代表核心词素的音节保留下来，用一两个音节来表示复合词或者词组。这种方式强调词的发音，应用最多的也是日常口语。比如，hippo=hippopotamus（河马）；phone=telephone（电话）；fridge=refrigerator（冰箱）；webcast=web broadcast（网络直播）。

The first two types are formed by taking out syllables in a word that can represent its core morpheme so that one syllable or two syllables can refer to a compound word or a phrase. Such way of formation emphasizes the pronunciation of a word and is most commonly used in colloquial English. For example, hippo=hippopotamus； phone=telephone； fridge=refrigerator and webcast=web broadcast.

后两种是保留每个词的首字母，或者也可以包含其他辅音。如果不能拼读出音节，就是首字母缩略词，按照字母发音来读；如果能拼读出音节，就是首字母拼音词，按照拼出的音节来读。这种方式其实是用字母代表词，强调词的书写符号，因此 ，更多是书面语使用。比如，GRE=Graduate Record Examination（美国研究生入学考试）；UNESCO= United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization （联合国教科文组织)。

The second two types are formed through taking out the first letter of a word, and sometimes, other consonants in the word may also be included. If such an abbreviation does not form any pronounceable syllable, it is an initialism and it is pronounced letter by letter. If pronounceable syllables are formed in an abbreviation, it is an acronym and it is pronounced as formed syllables like a word. In fact, such a way of formation means to represent a word with a letter or letters. It emphasizes on writing symbols, so most of the words so formed are first used in writing. For example, GRE=Graduate Record Examination; UNESCO= United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization.

中文里也有很多缩略词。现代汉语中，实词一般都是双音节。只有最基本的词，才是单音节词。在中文里，一个音节写成一个字。

There are also many abbreviations in Chinese. In modern Chinese language, real words generally have two syllables or are disyllables. Only the most basic words are monosyllables. In the Chinese language, one syllable is written into one character.

在缩略过程中，把多音节词中的单个音节拿出来代表整个词。可以选择词的第一个音节，也可以选择作为核心词素的音节。比如，科技=科学技术；高校=高等院校。

Through abbreviation, one syllable in a polysyllable is taken out to represent a whole word. The first syllable of a word can be selected, or the syllable that represents core morpheme. For example, 科技=科学技术(science and technology); 高校=高等院校(higher education institutions).

有时还可以完全省略中间一些词，留下首尾。比如，人大=人民代表大会；政协=政治协商会议。

Sometimes, some words in the middle can be omitted completely with only one syllable taken from the first and last words. For example, 人大=人民代表大会(people’s congress)；政协=政治协商会议(political consultative conference).

多个词组并列时，还可以用数字归纳核心词素，表达一类事物，而事物名称中不一定包含这个核心词素。比如，四季=四个季节（春夏秋冬）；四化=四个现代化（农业现代化 、工业现代化 、国防现代化、科学技术现代化）。

When a number of phrases are put together, a summarization can be formed with number and core morpheme to refer to a collection of things. And the words for the things may not have the core morpheme. For example, 四季=四个季节（春夏秋冬） (The four seasons of spring, summer, autumn and winter)；四化=四个现代化（农业现代化 、工业现代化 、国防现代化、科学技术现代化） (The four modernizations of agriculture, industry, national defense, and science and technology).

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