expurgate
英 ['ekspɜːgeɪt]
美 ['ɛkspɚɡet]
expurgate 中文词源
expurgate 纯化ex-, 向外。purge, 清除，净化。
expurgate 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.
expurgate 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). 来自互联网
- 2. To expurgate ( a book, for example ) prudishly.
- 删节谦逊地删节 ( 如一本书 )
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