expurgate
英['ekspɜːgeɪt]
美['ɛkspɚɡet]
词态变化
第三人称单数: expurgates;过去式: expurgated;过去分词: expurgated;现在分词: expurgating;中文词源
expurgate 纯化ex-, 向外。purge, 清除，净化。
英文词源
- expurgate
- 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.
双语例句
- 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).
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- 2. To expurgate ( a book, for example ) prudishly.
- 删节谦逊地删节 ( 如一本书 )
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