expurgated adj. 经过删除的
v. 删除(expurgate的过去式和过去分词)
- Rude languages should be expurgated from classroom books.
粗鲁的语言必须从教科书中删去。 - He was capable of bringing out an expurgated edition of Wordsworth.
他几乎做得出出版华兹华斯作品的删改本(洁本)。 - Chinese internet users can readily find websites showing the expurgated parts of “Lust, Caution”.Uncensored bootleg copies are peddled on the streets.
中国的网民可以轻易的在网上看到〖色戒〗中删除的几段,完整版的盗版碟也在市面上随处可见。
expurgated[ adj ]
having material deleted
<adj.all>
at that time even Shakespeare was considered dangerous except in the expurgated versions
Expurgate \Ex"pur*gate\ ([e^]ks"p[u^]r*g[=a]t or
[e^]ks*p[^u]r"g[=a]t; 277), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Expurgated}
([e^]ks`p[u^]r*g[=a]"t[e^]d); p. pr. & vb. n. {Expurgating}
([e^]ks`p[u^]r*g[=a]"t[i^]ng).] [L. expurgatus, p. p. of
expurgare to purge, purify; ex out, from + purgare to
cleanse, purify, purge. See {Purge}, and cf. {Spurge}.]
To purify; to clear from anything noxious, offensive, or
erroneous; to cleanse; to purge; as, to expurgate a book.
expurgated \expurgated\ adj.
having material deleted; -- of books; as, at that time even
Shakespeare was considered dangerous except in the expurgated
versions.
[WordNet 1.5]