bowdlerize 

  1. 動詞
及物動詞:
刪除...(書、戲劇等)中不妥的文句
刪除...(書、戲劇等)中不妥的場面
修訂...(不妥的文句、場面等)
刪改...(不妥的文句、場面等)
/此動詞過去式與過去分詞為"bowdlerized"/
/現在分詞為"bowdlerizing"/
/第三者單數現在式為"bowdlerizes"/

    同義字詞
censor,clean (up),expurgate,launder,red-pencil

例句

  1. What's more, I had to bowdlerize some entries.
  2. I'll bowdlerize love - one boredom less - and leave
  3. Thomas Bowdler whose name is now used used as the verb "bowdlerise" or " bowdlerize "
  4. His condemnation of "Forever Amber" caused producer William Perlberg to publicly refuse to " bowdlerize the film to placate the Roman Catholic Church".
  5. But a translator should not assume the role of censor and surreptitiously delete or bowdlerize passages merely to please a political or moral interest.