expurgate
英 [ˈek.spə.ɡeɪt]
美 [ˈek.spɚ.ɡeɪt]
将“expurgate”分解为“ex”和“purge”。想象“ex”代表“出去”,而“purge”意味着净化或清除。将这两个概念结合起来,可以想象为“彻底清除出去”的过程,这通常指的是删除或修改书籍、文章中的不适当内容。通过这样的形象化记忆,可以帮助记住“expurgate”这个单词的含义。
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expurgate 纯化ex-, 向外。purge, 清除,净化。
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expurgate: see pure
- expurgate (v.)
- 1620s, "to purge" (in anatomy), back-formation from expurgation or from Latin expurgatus, past participle of expurgare "to cleanse out, purge, purify." Related: Expurgated; expurgating. The earlier verb was simply expurge (late 15c.), from Middle French expurger. Meaning "remove (something offensive or erroneous) from" is from 1670s.
- 1. He is capabled of bring out an expurgate edit 0 ion of wordsworth.
- 他几乎做的出出版华兹华斯作品的删改本(洁本).
- 2. To expurgate ( a book, for example ) prudishly.
- 删节谦逊地删节 ( 如一本书 )