bowdlerize

英 ['ba?dl?ra?z] 美['ba?dl?ra?z]

GRE

第三人稱單數:?bowdlerizes;過去式:?bowdlerized;過去分詞:?bowdlerized;現在分詞:?bowdlerizing;

1、使用Thomas Bowdler這個人名來創造的一個單詞，因為他編輯出版了一部刪節版的莎士比亞作品而出名，在這部作品里面，他沒有添加任何內容，僅僅是刪除了那些不宜在家里面大聲朗讀的內容，故此，使用他的人名創造出此單詞，來表示：刪除(書籍等)中的不妥之處。

bowdlerize 刪改

來自18世紀英國編輯Thomas Bowdler的名字，其為了編輯一部理想化的純潔版的莎士比亞作品，刪改了所有他認為粗俗的詞語和句子，從而使該詞流行起來。

bowdlerize: bowdlerize: [19] In 1818 Dr Thomas Bowdler (1754–1825), an English editor, published his Family Shakespeare, an expurgated edition of the plays ‘in which those words and expressions are omitted which cannot with propriety be read aloud in a family’. This and other similarly censored versions of the English classics led to Bowdler’s name being cast as the epitome of Whitehousian suppression. The first recorded use of the verb was in a letter by General P Thompson in 1836.
bowdlerize (v.): 1836, from Thomas Bowdler (1754-1825), English editor who in 1818 published a notorious expurgated Shakespeare, in which, according to his frontispiece, "nothing is added to the original text; but those words and expressions omitted which cannot with propriety be read aloud in a family." Related: Bowdlerized; bowdlerizing.

1. There is no need to bowdlerize your speech when dealing with anyone from a legal standpoint.: 從法律角度說，你不需要再跟任何人修訂你的演講稿了。

2. If you bowdlerize Story of the Wing , it wouldn't be as interesting a book.: 如果刪除《西廂記》里的不雅文字, 讀起來就沒那麼有趣了.