| 单词 | blue-pencil |
| 释义 | > as lemmasblue-pencil blue-pencil v. transitive to mark, cross out, or obliterate with a blue pencil; (hence) to make cuts in a text or the like; to censor or edit (originally and frequently in figurative context). ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > memory > effacement, obliteration > efface, obliterate [verb (transitive)] > erase by marking strikec1386 to rub offa1425 cancelc1440 streakc1440 cross1483 outstrike1487 line1530 to strike out1530 dash1549 to strike off1597 cancellate1664 damask1673 score1687 to run through1817 overscore1834 blue-pencil1883 stroke1885 caviar1890 to stencil out1891 to strike through1898 ex1935 x1942 1883 Liberty 15 Dec. 3/3 To disfigure, ‘blue-pencil’, or qualify what to him seems his best thought and most righteous sentiment is to him next to an assault upon his mental integrity. 1888 N.Y. Herald 29 July 7/6 The editor of the Century Magazine blue pencils magazine articles by the bushel. 1914 G. Cannan Old Mole 39 He blue-pencilled false quantities in Latin verse. 1925 Mus. Assoc. Proc. 60 He would blue-pencil an unprepared chord of the seventh in a motet in the style of Palestrina. 2000 Kenyon Rev. Summer 195 When Grennan gets on his metaphysical high horse, or when he overdoes his descriptions, I mentally bluepencil words, phrases, even groups of lines. < as lemmas |
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