bowdlerize

vt. 删除, 删改

发音

UK /ˈbaʊd.ləˌɹaɪz/
US /ˈbaʊd.ləɹˌaɪz/

词形变化

bowdlerized bowdlerizes 三单 bowdlerizes bowdlerizing bowdlerizing 现在分词 bowdlerized 过去式 bowdlerized 过去分词

别名

Bowdlerise Bowdlerize bowdlerise

释义与例句

v.
  1. 1.

    To remove or alter those parts of a text considered offensive, vulgar, or otherwise unseemly.

    及物

    The bowdlerized version of the novel, while free of vulgarity, was also free of flavor.

词汇关系

动词

同义词 4

shorten castrate bowdlerise expurgate

上位词 7

cut contract reduce shorten abbreviate abridge foreshorten

词源

From Bowdler + -ize; named after English physician Thomas Bowdler (1754–1825). In 1818, he published a censored version of William Shakespeare (The Family Shakespeare), expurgating “those words and expressions […] which cannot with propriety be read aloud in a family.”

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