edit

e-, 向外。-dit, 给予，词源同date, donate.

edit

edit: [18] Etymologically, someone who edits a newspaper ‘gives it out’, or in effect ‘publishes’ it. And that in fact is how the word was first used in English: when William Enfield wrote in his 1791 translation of Brucker’s Historia critica philosophiae that a certain author ‘wrote many philosophical treatises which have never been edited’, he meant ‘published’.

This usage comes directly from ēditus, the past participle of Latin ēdere ‘put out, exhibit, publish’, which was a compound verb formed from the prefix ex- ‘out’ and dare ‘put, give’ (source of English date, donate, etc). In its modern application, ‘prepare for publication’, it is mainly a back-formation from editor [17], which acquired this particular sense in the 18th century. (French éditeur still means ‘publisher’, and the term editor is used in that sense in some British publishing houses.)
=> date, donate

edit (v.)

1791, "to publish," perhaps a back-formation from editor, or from French éditer (itself a back-formation from édition) or from Latin editus, past participle of edere "give out, put out, publish" (see edition). Meaning "to supervise for publication" is from 1793. Meaning "make revisions to a manuscript, etc.," is from 1885. Related: Edited; editing. As a noun, by 1960, "an act of editing."

1. I used to edit the college paper in the old days.

以前我曾经做过大学校报的主编。

2. Three CBS cameramen were on site to shoot and edit taped reports.

3名哥伦比亚广播公司的摄影记者在现场拍摄并编辑录像报道。

3. When you edit the tape you can take out the giggles.

你编辑录音时，可以把咯咯笑的部分删了。

4. He taught me to edit and splice film.

他教我电影剪接。

5. He undertook to edit the text himself.

他答应亲自编辑正文的内容。