| 单词 | censorship |
| 释义 | censorship (once / 1700 pages) n Censorship blocks something from being read, heard, or seen. If you've ever heard the sound of bleeping when someone is speaking on television, that's censorship. To "censor" is to review something and to choose to remove or hide parts of it that are considered unacceptable. Censorship is the name for the process or idea of keeping things like obscene word or graphic images from an audience. There is also such a thing as self-censorship, which is when you refrain from saying certain things — or possibly re-wording them — depending on who is listening. WORD FAMILYcensorship: censorships+/censor: censored, censorial, censoring, censorious, censors, censorship/censored: uncensored/censoring: censorings/censorious: censoriously USAGE EXAMPLESTeachers and literacy organizations often decry such moves as censorship that erase important literature from curriculums. Washington Post(Dec 31, 2016) Claire Guthrie Gastañaga, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia, expressed concern that the ultimate goal might be some form of censorship. Washington Post(Dec 29, 2016) There’s no ministry of information or formal censorship apparatus, and the Internet is unrestricted. The New Yorker(Dec 25, 2016) 1n deleting parts of publications or correspondence or theatrical performances Syn|Hypo|Hyper censoring Bowdlerism censorship in the form of prudish expurgation Comstockerycensorship because of perceived obscenity or immorality deletion the act of deleting something written or printed 2n counterintelligence achieved by banning or deleting any information of value to the enemy Syn|Hypo|Hyper censoring, security review military censorship all types of censorship conducted by personnel of the armed forces national censorshipcensorship under civil authority of communications entering or leaving of crossing the borders of the United States or its territories or possessions civil censorshipmilitary censorship of civilian communications (correspondence or printed matter of films) entering or leaving of circulating within territories controlled by armed forces field press censorshipsecurity review of news (including all information or material intended for dissemination to the public) subject to the jurisdiction of the armed forces prisoner of war censorshipmilitary censorship of communication to and from prisoners of war and civilian internees held by the armed forces armed forces censorshipmilitary censorship of personal communications to or from persons in the armed forces counterintelligence intelligence activities concerned with identifying and counteracting the threat to security posed by hostile intelligence organizations or by individuals engaged in espionage or sabotage or subversion or terrorism |
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