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expurgate

美['ekspəgeɪt],英['ekspəgeɪt],

释义

v. 删除…中的不当之处;略去…中的不雅之处; 网络释义: 删去;使纯洁;删节;

例句

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。
Bowdlerize: to expurgate (a book, for example) prudishly.

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