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词汇 blue-pencil
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Definition of blue-pencil in English:

blue-pencil

verb
[with object]
  • Censor or make cuts in (a manuscript, film, or other work)

    审查;删改(原稿、电影或其他作品)

    holding up each paragraph for preliminary blue-pencilling
    Example sentencesExamples
    • This notion of ‘invisible letters,’ in turn blue-penciled in revision, makes all the more telling the poet's deletion of the phrase that identified the cryptic ‘N.C.’ of his dedication as ‘our long old love’.
    • We are still in the ethereal realm of speculation: if the manuscripts of the author's novels have been preserved with the editor's blue-pencilling, they will make for an interesting study.
    • Also, true excellence in writing will be quickly blue-penciled into oblivion.
    • I've been blue-pencilled by madmen, seriously deranged obsessives and fiends in human shape before now.
    • Before the web, when writing that became publicly available had first to pass under the watchful eye of a sub-editor, such formations would have been blue-pencilled into conventional forms.
    Synonyms
    delete, cross out, cross through, strike out, score out, scratch out, cancel, put a line through, ink out, edit out, blank out

Definition of blue-pencil in US English:

blue-pencil

verbˌblo͞oˈpensəlˌbluˈpɛnsəl
[with object]
  • Edit or make cuts in (a manuscript, movie, or other work)

    审查;删改(原稿、电影或其他作品)

    holding up each paragraph for preliminary blue-penciling
    Example sentencesExamples
    • I've been blue-pencilled by madmen, seriously deranged obsessives and fiends in human shape before now.
    • Also, true excellence in writing will be quickly blue-penciled into oblivion.
    • This notion of ‘invisible letters,’ in turn blue-penciled in revision, makes all the more telling the poet's deletion of the phrase that identified the cryptic ‘N.C.’ of his dedication as ‘our long old love’.
    • We are still in the ethereal realm of speculation: if the manuscripts of the author's novels have been preserved with the editor's blue-pencilling, they will make for an interesting study.
    • Before the web, when writing that became publicly available had first to pass under the watchful eye of a sub-editor, such formations would have been blue-pencilled into conventional forms.
    Synonyms
    delete, cross out, cross through, strike out, score out, scratch out, cancel, put a line through, ink out, edit out, blank out
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