| 单词 | blue pencil |
| 释义 | blue pencil noun[S] uk/ˌbluː ˈpen.səl/us/ˌbluː ˈpen.səl/If apersongoes over apieceof writing with abluepencil, theyremoveorchangesome of the words toimproveit or make itacceptable. 修改；删除；编辑Editing & compiling
Examplesofblue pencilblue pencil Apropos of repetition, a repeated paragraph on consecutive pages has evaded the head-down editorialbluepencil. From theCambridge English Corpus Wherever they find there is any unreasonable charge for management expenses or for directors' fees they can put theirbluepencilthrough it. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Brautigan signed each of the 16 copies inbluepenciland 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 withbluepencil, leaving intact a mere 12 bars towards the end of the piece. From theCambridge English Corpus Abluepencilwas 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 theOpen 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 thebluepencil. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Very often, abluepencilis 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 theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Here is another case for his benignbluepencil. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 I had in my hand abluepencil. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 I think that thebluepencilwould come out at once. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 It seems to me that thebluepencilwould ask whether this is punishing the community. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 It is a kind ofbluepencilon the union all the time. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 A vast bureaucracy with a red pencil and abluepencil, 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 theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 They showed me a card in which there was abluepencilmark 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 theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Bluepencilis also used pejoratively to mean censorship. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.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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