"Our Lord Jesus Christ! Holy Mother of God! Father, Son, and Holy Ghost!" he kept repeating, with the different intonations and abbreviations which gradually become peculiar to persons who are accustomed to pronounce the words with great frequency.英文原著 · 《Childhood》
It is further supposed that as the life-history lengthens at one end by the addition of new adult phases, it is shortened at the other by the abbreviation of embryonic development and by the absorption of some of the early larval stages into the embryonic period; but on the whole the lengthening process has exceeded that of shortening, so that the whole life-history has, with the progress of evolution, become longer and more complicated.英文原著 · 《Darwin and Modern Science》
If therefore Ilioneus, according to our supposition, understand the heliacal rising of Orion, Anna must mean the achronical, which the different epithets given to that constellation seem to manifest. Ilioneus calls him nimbosus, Anna, aquosus. He is tempestuous in the summer, when he rises heliacally; and rainy in the winter, when he rises achronically. Your lordship will pardon me for the frequent repetition of these cant words, which I could not avoid in this abbreviation of Segrais, who, I think, deserves no little commendation in this new criticism.英文原著 · 《Discourses on Satire and Epic Poetry》
The name given her by a noted medicine-man was Makah-oesetopah-win. It means The-four- corners-of-the-earth. As she was rather small, the abbreviation with a diminutive termination was considered more appropriate, hence Oesedah became her common name.英文原著 · 《Indian Boyhood》
Gin: An obvious abbreviation of "aborigine", it only refers
to *female* aborigines, and is now considered derogatory. It was not considered derogatory at the time Lawson wrote.英文原著 · 《Joe Wilson and His Mates》
"H--l" is his abbreviation for Hannibal. He had first used it in a title of a poem which a few years before, during one of Orion's absences, he had published in the paper. "To Mary in Hannibal" was too long to set as a display head in single column. The poem had no great merit, but under the abbreviated title it could hardly fail to invite notice. It was one of several things he did to liven up the circulation during a brief period of his authority.英文原著 · 《Letters Vol. 1》
No, it's actually just an abbreviation to make it easier to say.美剧 · 《House of Cards》
And then the word "He," It wasn't the masculine pronoun, But rather, "H-E," The abbreviation for helium.美剧 · 《The Big Bang Theory》