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bowdlerization
n. 任意删改 任意删改 bowdlerization n 1: written material that has been bowdlerized [ synonym: { bowdlerization}, { bowdlerisation}] 2: the act of deleting or modifying all passages considered to be indecent [ synonym: { bowdlerization}, { bowdlerisation}] bowdlerization \ bowdlerization\ n. the deletion of all passages considered to be indecent. Syn: bowdlerisation, expurgation. [ WordNet 1. 5]
Bowdlerize \ Bowd" ler* ize\, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. { Bowdlerized}; p. pr. & vb. n. { Bowdlerizing}.] [ After Dr. Thomas Bowdler, an English physician, who published an expurgated edition of Shakespeare in 1818.] To expurgate, as a book, by omitting or modifying the parts considered offensive; to remove morally objectionable parts; -- said of literary texts. Syn: bowdlerise, expurgate, shorten, cut. [ 1913 Webster WordNet 1. 5] It is a grave defect in the splendid tale of Tom Jones . . . that a Bowdlerized version of it would be hardly intelligible as a tale. -- F. Harrison. [ 1913 Webster] -- { Bowd` ler* i* za" tion}, n. -- { Bowd" ler* ism}, n. [ Webster 1913 Suppl.]
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