expurgate
vt. 刪除(書等中的)令人反感的成分,修訂,刪去(不當處)
If someone expurgates a piece of writing, they remove parts of it before it is published because they think those parts will offend or shock people.
He heavily expurgated the work in its second edition.
在第二版中,他對書中內容進行了大幅刪減。
1. edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate;
To expurgate ( a book, for example ) prudishly.
刪節謙遜地刪節 ( 如一本書 )
He is capabled of bring out an expurgate edit 0 ion of wordsworth.
他幾乎做的出出版華茲華斯作品的刪改本(潔本).