- VERB 删除，删改（书或电影中的部分）
To bowdlerize a book or film means to take parts of it out before publishing it or showing it.- I'm bowdlerizing it — just slightly changing one or two words so listeners won't be upset.
我在对它作些改动——只是改换个别字眼，好让听众更容易接受。 - ...a bowdlerised version of the song.
这首歌曲的删节版
- I'm bowdlerizing it — just slightly changing one or two words so listeners won't be upset.
in BRIT, also use 英国英语亦用 bowdlerise
verb
- 删改（认为书或戏剧等中有伤风化或有冒犯性的部分）；鲍德勒化
to remove the parts of a book, play, etc. that you think are likely to shock or offend people
英英释义
verb
- edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate
- bowdlerize a novel
Synonym: bowdleriseexpurgatecastrateshorten
- I'm bowdlerizing it — just slightly changing one or two words so listeners won't be upset.
我在对它作些改动——只是改换个别字眼，好让听众更容易接受。 - A place to carefully calibrate, sanitize and bowdlerize our words for every possible audience, now and forever.
在Facebook上，我们要始终谨慎校正、净化和删改我们对每个可能听众所说的每个词。