1.使纯洁,删去(书籍的不妥处)
1.to remove words or passages considered offensive or unsuitable from a book before publication
1.After WWII, for allies in Germany, one of the toughest job was expurgating fascist dogma from textbooks.
二战后,在德国的盟军最艰巨的一项任务是从教科书里删除法西斯主义教条。
2.Expurgating this book took up most of my time.
修订这本书佔用了我大部分时间。