| 单词 | bowdlerise |
| 例句 | In The Book of Dave, I bowdlerise English to get a kind of future speak, because language changes. Will Self, on himself 2012-08-20T11:45:00Z They had to bowdlerise culture because they couldn't appreciate the unadulterated thing. Everyone's a critic now 2011-01-30T00:06:14Z And, like you, I don't want PMQs turned into a bloodless, bowdlerised shadow of its rowdy self. Is it unparliamentary to call someone a 'muttering idiot'? 2012-05-26T17:19:01Z It was the Grimm brothers themselves who first bowdlerised the form, because they were gearing their collection towards children in the hope of improving sales. Why 2012 was the year of the fairytale 2012-12-24T08:30:01Z It's a pity the lyrics were bowdlerised, but you can't have everything. Readers recommend: songs about heat – results 2013-04-11T14:07:21Z The latter I would have read only in a bowdlerised children's edition, but the former I was exposed to in all its warped genius. Big on littleness 2010-08-27T23:05:00Z I remember that some have careful, bowdlerising glosses, fitting rude and sparkling verse for the innocent eye of youth – some even resort to asterisks in particularly racy sections. The books you cannot let go 2013-04-09T09:36:41Z Then there was the Hollywood adaptation, which bowdlerised it even further. Eric Berkowitz on sex and society 2012-07-09T11:45:00Z In 1973, I attended a preview of the first, much bowdlerised film of Jim Thompson's The Getaway, directed by Sam Peckinpah, notorious as "Bloody Sam", the screen's most celebrated exponent of violence. The Killer Inside Me 2010-06-05T23:05:00Z Many of you have written in with the real version, which I had bowdlerised for the tender susceptibilities of Guardian readers. Simon Hoggart's week: how tickled we are, missus 2012-07-20T16:44:08Z "No more famous work has been more mishandled, bowdlerised, dismembered and misinterpreted," he writes in The Compleat Conductor, so his performance with Scottish pianist Steven Osborne is an attempt to set the record straight. Gunther Schuller: Conducting? He wrote the book 2010-08-12T22:30:00Z Ferman took years to give a bowdlerised version of The Evil Dead an 18 certificate – but by then of course the horse had bolted. Putting the F-word in BBFC 2010-09-30T21:30:00Z What if, in order to meet customers where they were, you had to bowdlerise your writing, or give up on writing altogether and pivot to video? Big Swinging Brains and fashy trolls: how the world fell into a clickbait death spiral 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z On the company website, entire words were recently bowdlerised in descriptions of books it sells. Th*nks for asterisks: the maligned punctuation enjoying Twitter revival 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z That is the question Ms Rappaport tackles, combing intelligently through the often bowdlerised archives of several countries, and trying to get past the romantic tone of much previous writing on the subject. How the royal houses of Europe abandoned the Romanovs 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z It must, historically, have been the 1706 Grub Street version – not the bowdlerised Victorian editions. Raymond Chandler's Red Wind carried me to California 2014-08-04T04:00:00Z "I do not want to sanitise nor bowdlerise his life but it is time that we get these traits into a new and more accurate perspective." Who was to blame for Dylan's death? 2013-11-08T17:23:47Z But it is equally possible to interpret it in the framework of Keynes – only not the bowdlerised Keynes taught in undergraduate textbooks but the real Keynes of The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money. China's economic stimulus offers Europe a lesson 2012-05-30T12:22:19Z The word “bowdlerisation” itself is manipulated; a noun resulting from the verb “to bowdlerise”, which was taken from Thomas Bowdler’s name. Th*nks for asterisks: the maligned punctuation enjoying Twitter revival 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z They are to be given a makeover – bowdlerised as we used to say in English – to bring them up to date for today's children. Crispin Blunt's push for comfy prisons makes him Tory Public Enemy No 1 2010-07-27T13:00:00Z There is an abundance of good anecdote, and personal foibles are not bowdlerised; but the author’s taste is perfect and his attitude is frankly one of human sympathy. Lavengro The Scholar, The Gypsy, The Priest There is an abundance of good anecdote, and personal foibles are not bowdlerised; but the author's taste is perfect and his attitude is frankly one of human sympathy. Law and Laughter On the model of tantalise, from the punishment of Tantalus, we have bowdlerise, from Bowdler, who published an expurgated "family Shakespeare" in 1818; cf. macadamise. The Romance of Words (4th ed.) The full details of this narrative have evidently been offensive to the author of LB, who has heroically bowdlerised it. The Latin & Irish Lives of Ciaran Translations Of Christian Literature. Series V. Lives Of The Celtic Saints It was, however, subjected to some criticism and ridicule, and gave rise to the expression "bowdlerise," always used in an opprobrious sense. A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature If I may be permitted a rather lengthy digression, "bowdlerised" derives its name from Thomas Bowdler, who in 1818 published an expurgated edition of Shakespeare. The Days Before Yesterday And with this address, which I give in bowdlerised form, the young fellow turned his horse, and disappeared through a belt of lignum. Such Is Life And if The Nights are to be bowdlerised for students, why not, I again ask, mutilate Plato and Juvenal, the Romances of the Middle Ages, Boccaccio and Petrarch and the Elizabethan dramatists one and all? The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 16 They were handed down from father to son in the families, without anybody improving on them or bowdlerising them: they were sacred. Tartarin of Tarascon The Battle of the Books has often been fought, the crude text versus the bowdlerised and the expurgated; and our critic can contribute to the great fray only the merest platitudes. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 16 |
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