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red-pencil

/red-pen-suhl/US // ˈrɛdˈpɛn səl //

红铅笔,红笔,红笔头,红色铅笔

Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    red-pen·ciled, red-pen·cil·ing or red-pen·cilled, red-pen·cil·ling.

    • : to delete, censor, correct, or abridge with or as if with a pencil having a red lead: His book was heavily red-penciled before it got clearance.

Examples

  • Former Red Sox star Curt Schilling says his politics are keeping him out of Cooperstown.

  • Nor does the jet have the ability to capture high-definition video, utilize an infra-red pointer.

  • There was deep brown flesh, and bronze flesh, and pallid white flesh, and flesh turned red from the hot sun.

  • A Republican candidate hoping to win red state support could find a worse team to root for than one from Dallas.

  • The pale, baby-faced, red-cheeked rapper is furiously puffing away at a hastily-made blunt crammed with low-grade weed.

  • Beginners must be warned against mistaking the edges of cells, or particles which have retained the red stain, for bacilli.

  • Under the internal pressure his whiskers stood on end and his face grew red.

  • “You appear to feel it so,” rejoined Mr. Pickwick, smiling at the clerk, who was literally red-hot.

  • Ripperda's eye fell upon the mantle,—it was discoloured a dark red in many places, he nodded his head, and the man withdrew.

  • C was a Captain, all covered with lace; D was a drunkard, and had a red face.