An expurgated book, play, or film is one that has already had parts taken out because someone judged them harmful or offensive. This is the form you actually see: an expurgated edition, an expurgated cut. Same work of cleaning as the verb expurgate, only here it is a finished state, not the act. A student edition of an old play might be expurgated; the full text is not. People who love the original often say the word with a little heat, as if something real was washed away. On a shelf, the quiet clue is often “school edition” or “for broadcast,” not the Latin-looking verb itself.

經過刪改的、已去掉不雅或敏感段落的