expurgate

释义

v.

删除…中的不当之处；略去…中的不雅之处

网络

删去；使纯洁；删节

词形变化

过去分词：expurgated 现在分词：expurgating 第三人称单数：expurgates

在例句中理解 3 句

1. I think I like Shakespeare's expurgate poem best, and I often wish that he had confined himself entirely to that kind.

   我想，我最喜欢莎士比亚的洁本诗集。我常常希望他完全埋头于这一类干净东西就好了。

2. bowdlerize: To expurgate (a book, for example) prudishly.

   删节：谦逊地删节（如一本书）。

3. He heavily expurgated the work in its second edition.

   在第二版中，他大幅删减了该作品。