- 1刪去不當內容、淨化（書籍、劇本）
To expurgate a book, play, or film is to cut out bits someone in charge finds dirty, rude, violent, or politically dangerous, so a “cleaner” version can be sold, taught, or shown. School editions of old novels get expurgated; so do some films for TV. It is a formal, verb — most people meet the adjective expurgated more often than they hear someone say the verb. The person doing it may say they are protecting readers; a critic may say they are hiding what the work really was. Though actually, it is not the same as a book to save time (that is abridging). The point here is moral or political cleaning, not page count.
組成From Latin expurgātus, the past form of expurgō (“purge, cleanse, purify”).
同家族的字
- purgesame Latin root for cleaning something out
- expurgatedthe form you actually meet on book covers and in reviews
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
expurgateverb/ˈɛks.pɚ.ɡeɪt/
- 1
To edit out (incorrect, offensive, or otherwise undesirable information) from a book or other publication; to cleanse; to purge.
- The publisher decided to expurgate the love scene from the book, to make it more child-friendly.
- Yossarian was busy expurgating all but romance words from the letters when the chaplain sat down in a chair between the beds and asked him how he was feeling.
- 2
To undertake editing out incorrect, offensive, or otherwise undesirable information from (a book or other publication); to cleanse; to purge.
- The publisher decided to expurgate the book, which meant removing the love scene.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。