bowdlerize
英 [ˈbaʊdləraɪz] 美 ['baʊdləraɪz]

vt.

删除（书刊、剧本等中）有伤风化的词语或场面；

变形

过去式：bowdlerized过去分词：bowdlerized现在分词：bowdlerizing第三人称单数：bowdlerizes

英英释义

bowdlerize[ 'baudləraiz ]

• v.edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate

  "bowdlerize a novel"

  同义词：bowdleriseexpurgatecastrateshorten

双语例句

用作动词(v.)

1. There is no need to bowdlerize your speech when dealing with anyone from a legal standpoint.
   从法律角度说，你不需要再跟任何人修订你的演讲稿了。

权威例句

The Annotation Game: On Turing (1950) on Computing, Machinery, and Intelligence (PUBLISHED VERSION BOWDLERIZED)
William Henry Harvey as Colonial Treasurer at the Cape of Good Hope: a case of depression and bowdlerized history
Refunctioning History, Raabe Bowdlerized, or Unseres Herrgotts Kanzlei as an "Ethnic Myth of Descent"
Afanasy Nikitin as a Cultural Ambassador to India: A Bowdlerized Soviet Translation of His Journal
The A B C's of Counterfeit Classics: Adapted, Bowdlerized, and Condensed
Bowdlerized Versions of Hardy
Chapel Hill and the Bowdlerized Image of Civil Rights
Taming Lord Byron: burned, faked and bowdlerized
Rope Splicing
How Not to Bowdlerize