Unabridged means a book, speech, recording, or document is given complete — nothing has been cut out to make it shorter. The word almost always appears where a shorter version also exists, and it is there to promise you that this is not that shorter version.

UnabridgedUnabridged（未刪節的） means意思是 a book, speech, recording, or document is given complete一本書、一場演講、一段錄音或一份文件是完整呈現的——nothing has been cut out to make it shorter沒有為了縮短而剪掉任何東西。The word almost always appears where a shorter version also exists這個字幾乎都出現在也存在較短版本的地方，and it is there to promise you that this is not that shorter version它存在的目的就是向你保證這不是那個較短的版本。

You meet it on book covers ('the unabridged edition'), on audiobooks ('unabridged, 32 hours'), on dictionaries (an unabridged dictionary is the giant one that tries to include every word, not the desk-sized one), and on recordings of speeches or interviews. Because of that, unabridged is really a marketing word as much as a describing word: it is a seller telling a buyer 'you are getting all of it.' It is formal and written; nobody says it about a conversation or a film.

You meet it on book covers ('the unabridged edition')你會在書封上看到它，像'the unabridged edition（未刪節版）'，on audiobooks ('unabridged, 32 hours')在有聲書上，像'unabridged, 32 hours（未刪節版，32小時）'，on dictionaries (an unabridged dictionary is the giant one that tries to include every word, not the desk-sized one)在字典上（an unabridged dictionary指的是想收錄每一個字的那種大部頭字典，不是桌上型的那種），and on recordings of speeches or interviews還有在演講或訪談的錄音上。Because of that正因為這樣，unabridged is really a marketing word as much as a describing wordunabridged與其說是在描述，不如說更是一個行銷用字：it is a seller telling a buyer 'you are getting all of it.'是賣方在跟買方說「你買到的是全部」。It is formal and written這是正式的書面用語；nobody says it about a conversation or a film沒有人會用它來講對話或電影。

Note that unabridged is not the same as uncut or uncensored — an unabridged text can still have been edited for grammar, or published with a translator's changes, or exist in only one version and simply never have been shortened. It only tells you about length, not about faithfulness in every other way.

Note that unabridged is not the same as uncut or uncensored要注意unabridged跟uncut或uncensored不一樣——an unabridged text can still have been edited for grammar一份unabridged的文本還是可能為了文法被修改過，or published with a translator's changes或是出版時經過譯者的改動，or exist in only one version and simply never have been shortened或者根本只有一個版本，從來沒被縮短過。It only tells you about length它只告訴你長度，not about faithfulness in every other way不告訴你其他方面是否忠於原作。

Occasionally people stretch it for effect, as in 'the unabridged version of what happened last night', meaning the long story with nothing left out; that use is playful and borrowed from books. It works only before a noun or after the verb be; there is no verb 'to unabridge'.

Occasionally people stretch it for effect偶爾大家會為了效果把這個字用得誇張一點，as in 'the unabridged version of what happened last night'像'the unabridged version of what happened last night（昨晚發生的事的完整版）'，meaning the long story with nothing left out意思是完整的、什麼都沒漏掉的故事——that use is playful and borrowed from books這種用法帶點玩笑，是從書本的用法借來的。It works only before a noun or after the verb be它只能放在名詞前面或be動詞後面；there is no verb 'to unabridge'沒有'to unabridge'這個動詞。