N-UNCOUNT (尤指政府官员对书刊、戏剧、电影、报道等的)审查,检查 Censorship is the censoring of books, plays, films, or reports, especially by government officials, because they are considered immoral or secret in some way.
(尤指政府官员对书刊、戏剧、电影、报道等的)审查,检查 SYN expurgation, blue pencil, purgation, bowdlerization or bowdlerisation
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Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it Nadine Gordimer Censorship and Its Aftermath God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide Rebecca West The Strange Necessity Wherever books are burned, in the end people too will be burned Heinrich Heine Almansor Where there is official censorship it is a sign that speech is serious Paul Goodman Growing Up Absurd Is it a book you would even wish your wife or your servants to read? Mervyn Griffith-Jones (of D.H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover) Word Link | ship ≈ condition or state : censorship, citizenship, friendship |
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