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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.
刪去不當內容、淨化（書籍、劇本）
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，原文照列，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/
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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.
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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.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。