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Bowdlerize V Baudləraiz 删除,删改 英 V.删除(Expurgate Thomas Bowdler

单词 bowdlerize
音标 ['baudləraiz]
解释 v. 删除,删改
红宝书 【英】 v.删除(expurgate)
字源 bowdlerize (v.)
1836, from Thomas Bowdler (1754-1825), English editor who in 1818 published a notorious expurgated Shakespeare, in which, according to his frontispiece, "nothing is added to the original text; but those words and expressions omitted which cannot with propriety be read aloud in a family." Related: Bowdlerized; bowdlerizing.
不择手段背单词 v. 删去(书中猥亵不当的部份) = expurgate
【例】This book has been bowdlerized 这本书中不当的部份已被删去.
【源】源自托马斯?鲍勒Bowdler, 他于1818年出版了莎士比亚修订本, 后来就用了他的名字来表示删去的含义.
【记】读: 不得了了. 不得了了, 这本书有色情内容-赶快删去
趣味全助记 【记】bowl 碗,吃饭首先要淘米,去掉不好的杂质

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