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    An unexpurgated book, play, film, or letter is the complete one — nothing has been cut out to protect people from parts that might shock or offend them. To 'expurgate' is to go through a text and take out the sex, the swearing, the , the cruelty, and then publish what is left. So 'unexpurgated' is what you call the version that escaped that treatment. This is a , formal word, and it usually appears in one particular place: on covers and in catalogues, as a selling point. 'The unexpurgated edition', 'the complete and unexpurgated text', 'unexpurgated diaries'. There is real history behind it — for a long time in Britain and America, famous books were sold only in cut versions, and when the full text was finally allowed, publishers said so loudly. So the word carries a faint thrill: it hints there is something in there someone once wanted hidden. English also uses it for speech. 'He gave us the unexpurgated version of what happened at the meeting' means he told the whole story, rude parts and all, holding nothing back. That joking use is probably the one you are most likely to meet in conversation. It is a long word and nobody will mind if you never say it — but you should recognise it, because when you see it on a book, it is telling you something about that book's past.

    未刪節的、完整無刪改的(版本)。書封上常見的「未刪節版/完整版」;口語裡也可以開玩笑說「毫無保留、連髒話都照講的版本」。

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組成un- (not) + expurgated (cleaned up by cutting out offensive parts). 'Expurgate' comes from Latin expurgare — ex- (out) + purgare (to clean, purify). Literally 'to clean the dirt out of'.

同家族的字

  • purgesame Latin purgare 'to clean out'
  • puresame Latin root purus 'clean'

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unexpurgatedadj

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    Not expurgated, not having had anything objectionable removed

    • Suddenly she stopped short, and disengaged herself from her companion. 'Oh, I sy,' she said, 'this is too bloomin' slow; it gives me the sick.' That is not precisely what she said, but it is impossible always to give the exact unexpurgated words of Liza and the other personages of the story, the reader is therefore entreated with his thoughts to piece out the necessary imperfections of the dialogue.
    • No remark of Mr. Murphy's can be printed here in unexpurgated form, but his observations about relations between the sexes are nothing if not keen.

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