单词 | expurgate |
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音标 | ['ekspə:geit] |
解释 | v.删除;使纯洁 |
红宝书 | 【英】 v. 删除, 使纯洁(to remove passages considered obscene or objectionable) 【考】 vendor : purvey / censor : expurgate(卖主供给/检查员删 除) 【记】 ex+purg(清洗)→清洗 掉→净化; 【同】 参考:purge(清洗, 净化),辨析: expunge指删除无用的 字、章节等; expurgate指删去书中 不恰当或不纯的地方 |
字源 | expurgate (v.) 1620s, back-formation from expurgation or from Latin expurgatus, past participle of expurgare "to cleanse out, purge, purify" (see expurgation). Related: Expurgated; expurgating. The earlier verb was simply expurge (late 15c.), from Middle French expurger. |
不择手段背单词 | v. 删除; 使纯洁(在出版前删除错误的、粗俗的、淫秽的东西) 【记】ex出, purg清洗-清洗出去-使纯洁ex出, pur读: 泼, gate: 出门后把gate泼一下水-清洗-删除 【参】purge(n /v 清洗; 净化); 源于: purity(n 纯洁) 【类】vendor: purvey = censor: expurgate 卖主供给 = 检查员删除 【反】inexpurgate(v 无法除去)-obliterate(v 除去) |
趣味全助记 | 【记】ex 出 + purge 净化, 清除;几乎与expunge(擦去)相同 【相关】purge 净化, 清除,expunge 擦去,抹去 |
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