| 词汇 | blue-pencil |
| 释义 | blue pencil noun[ S ] uk /ˌbluː ˈpen.səl/ us /ˌbluː ˈpen.səl/ If a person goes over a piece of writing with a blue pencil, they remove or change some of the words to improve it or make it acceptable.修改;删除;编辑 Editing & compiling abridged amend anthologist bowdlerization bowdlerized co-edit compile dub excerpt non-editorial over-edit post-editing proofreading recension revise subedit undubbed unfiltered unindexed unrevised Be thankful for a merciless City Editor and his blue pencil. His blue pencil is often busy adding phrasing marks. If it weren't for him I would give you the proofs to blue pencil as much as you liked. It came marked with blue pencil together with a note. Now, taking up a blue pencil, he crossed off the number five. She found him sitting in his room working, applying a stout blue pencil authoritatively to bundles of filmy paper. Examples of blue pencilblue pencil Apropos of repetition, a repeated paragraph on consecutive pages has evaded the head-down editorial bluepencil. Wherever they find there is any unreasonable charge for management expenses or for directors' fees they can put their bluepencil through it. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Brautigan signed each of the 16 copies in bluepencil and drew a small picture of a fish. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Evidently, virtually the entire movement had to be cut, and is crossed through with bluepencil, leaving intact a mere 12 bars towards the end of the piece. A bluepencil was struck right through, and not one word of the article allowed to appear. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 A great many of those cuts were accomplished, not by a cut in the actual grant but by am arbitrary stroke of the bluepencil. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Very often, a bluepencil is the best possible friend of those who want to make these reductions without asking too many questions. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Here is another case for his benign bluepencil. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I had in my hand a bluepencil. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I think that the bluepencil would come out at once. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It seems to me that the bluepencil would ask whether this is punishing the community. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is a kind of bluepencil on the union all the time. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 A vast bureaucracy with a red pencil and a bluepencil, giving the answers that the pricing system has failed to give? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They showed me a card in which there was a bluepencil mark through political economy, which meant that the man was perfect in that subject. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Bluepencil is also used pejoratively to mean censorship. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. See all examples of blue pencil These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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