No Soviet abridgement could fully erase them.

苏联的任何删节都无法完全抹。

The difficulty of laying hands on a copy of the original text has served to confuse many readers as to the nature and extent of the abridgement.

由于难以获得原文的副本，许多读者对删节的性质和程度感到困惑。

To this determination she was the more easily reconciled, by recollecting that Edward Ferrars, by Lucy's account, was not to be in town before February; and that their visit, without any unreasonable abridgement, might be previously finished.

她更容易接受这个决定，因为她想起，根据露西的说法，爱德华·费拉斯之前不会进城；而他的访问，不进行任何不合理缩短的情况下，可以提前结束。