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expurgation

/ek-sper-geyt/US // ˈɛk spərˌgeɪt //UK // (ˈɛkspəˌɡeɪt) //

删节,开除,驱逐,删改

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v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    ex·pur·gat·ed, ex·pur·gat·ing.

    • : to amend by removing words, passages, etc., deemed offensive or objectionable: Most children read an expurgated version of Grimms' fairy tales.
    • : to purge or cleanse of moral offensiveness.

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Examples

  • Even as late as the year 1825, a Spanish standard author could not be republished without expurgation.

  • Perhaps it is too much to ask for complete typographical expurgation of our libraries.

  • It was he too who had the privilege of witnessing the expurgation of the Islands of the excommunications and admonitions of Rome.

  • To do that would require a complete expurgation of the journal.

  • In their work no later expurgation could cleanse away that which their work could not contain.

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