bowdlerize
英 ['ba?dl?ra?z]
美['ba?dl?ra?z]
- vt. 刪改；刪除不妥的文句
GRE
詞態(tài)變化
第三人稱單數(shù):?bowdlerizes;過(guò)去式:?bowdlerized;過(guò)去分詞:?bowdlerized;現(xiàn)在分詞:?bowdlerizing;
助記提示
1、使用Thomas Bowdler這個(gè)人名來(lái)創(chuàng)造的一個(gè)單詞，因?yàn)樗庉嫵霭媪艘徊縿h節(jié)版的莎士比亞作品而出名，在這部作品里面，他沒(méi)有添加任何內(nèi)容，僅僅是刪除了那些不宜在家里面大聲朗讀的內(nèi)容，故此，使用他的人名創(chuàng)造出此單詞，來(lái)表示：刪除(書籍等)中的不妥之處。
中文詞源
bowdlerize 刪改
來(lái)自18世紀(jì)英國(guó)編輯Thomas Bowdler的名字，其為了編輯一部理想化的純潔版的莎士比亞作品，刪改了所有他認(rèn)為粗俗的詞語(yǔ)和句子，從而使該詞流行起來(lái)。
英文詞源
- bowdlerize
- bowdlerize: [19] In 1818 Dr Thomas Bowdler (1754–1825), an English editor, published his Family Shakespeare, an expurgated edition of the plays ‘in which those words and expressions are omitted which cannot with propriety be read aloud in a family’. This and other similarly censored versions of the English classics led to Bowdler’s name being cast as the epitome of Whitehousian suppression. The first recorded use of the verb was in a letter by General P Thompson in 1836.
- bowdlerize (v.)
- 1836, from Thomas Bowdler (1754-1825), English editor who in 1818 published a notorious expurgated Shakespeare, in which, according to his frontispiece, "nothing is added to the original text; but those words and expressions omitted which cannot with propriety be read aloud in a family." Related: Bowdlerized; bowdlerizing.
雙語(yǔ)例句
- 1. There is no need to bowdlerize your speech when dealing with anyone from a legal standpoint.
- 從法律角度說(shuō)，你不需要再跟任何人修訂你的演講稿了。
來(lái)自辭典例句
- 2. If you bowdlerize Story of the Wing , it wouldn't be as interesting a book.
- 如果刪除《西廂記》里的不雅文字, 讀起來(lái)就沒(méi)那麼有趣了.
來(lái)自互聯(lián)網(wǎng)