| 单词 | blue-pencilling |
| 释义 | > as lemmasblue-pencilling blue-pencilling n. the action or process of cutting, editing, or censoring with, or as though with, a blue pencil; an instance or the result of this. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > memory > effacement, obliteration > [noun] > deletion by marking dispunction1637 blacking out1773 blue-pencilling1891 x-ing1966 1891 Cosmopolitan Aug. 477/2 The wail of the space man who foresees the blue pencilling of his matter to make room for the artist's handiwork. 1904 A. Bennett Great Man xxviii. 331 The blue-pencilling of the play proceeded. 1909 ‘O. Henry’ Roads of Destiny xi. 173 Robbins was..detecting..the envious blue-pencilling his own stuff had received. 2011 K. J. Hayes in K. Newlin Oxf. Handbk. Amer. Literary Naturalism xxiii. 395 The surviving manuscript contains a copious number of blue pencillings throughout. < as lemmas |
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