expurgate是什么意思？

expurgate

英[ˈekspəgeɪt] 美[ˈekspərgeɪt]

• vt. 删除（书等中的）令人反感的成分，修订，删去（不当处）；

第三人称单数：expurgates;

过去式：expurgated;

过去分词：expurgated;

现在分词：expurgating;

例句

• To expurgate ( a book, for example ) prudishly. 删节谦逊地删节 ( 如一本书 )
• He is capabled of bring out an expurgate edit 0 ion of wordsworth. 他几乎做的出出版华兹华斯作品的删改本(洁本).

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• VERB
  删去，删除（著作中有所冒犯或令人震惊之处）
  If someone expurgates a piece of writing, they remove parts of it before it is published because they think those parts will offend or shock people.
  例句
  He heavily expurgated the work in its second edition. 在第二版中，他对书中内容进行了大幅删减。

英汉词典释义

• vt.
  删除(书等中的)令人反感的成分,修订;删去(不当处)
  an expurgated edition 修订本,修订版 The writer expurgated some parts from his novel when he read the third times. 作家第三次审稿时又删去了几部分。
• n.

英英词典释义

• Verb
  1. edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate;
  "bowdlerize a novel"