bowdlerize

动词 bowdlerize:

1. edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate
   同义词：bowdlerise, expurgate, castrate, shorten

bowd.ler.ize

v.tr.（及物动词）
bowd.ler.ized,bowd.ler.iz.ing,bowd.ler.iz.es
To expurgate (a book, for example) prudishly.
删节：谦逊地删节（如一本书）
To modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing the content in a certain manner.
通过删节曲解：修改、缩短或简化或以一定方式歪曲一本书的内容

来源：
After Thomas Bowdler (754-825), who published an expurgated edition of Shakespeare in 88
源自托马斯 鲍勒 （754-825年），他于88年出版了莎士比亚修订本

【引伸】
bowd.lerism
n.（名词）
bowd.leriza.tion
bowd.leriz.er
n.（名词）