• vt. 審查，檢查；檢查和刪節
• n. 檢查員；[心理] 潛意識壓抑力；信件檢查員

來自census，審查。

censor (n.)

1530s, "Roman magistrate who took censuses and oversaw public morals," from Middle French censor and directly from Latin censor, from censere "to appraise, value, judge," from PIE root *kens- "speak solemnly, announce" (cognates: Sanskrit ?amsati "recites, praises," ?asa "song of praise").

There were two of them at a time in classical times, usually patricians, and they also had charge of public finances and public works. Transferred sense of "officious judge of morals and conduct" in English is from 1590s. Roman censor also had a transferred sense of "a severe judge; a rigid moralist; a censurer." Of books, plays (later films, etc.), 1640s. By the early decades of the 19c. the meaning of the English word had shaded into "state agent charged with suppression of speech or published matter deemed politically subversive." Related: Censorial.

censor (v.)

1833 of media, from censor (n.). Related: Censored; censoring.

1. Television companies tend to censor bad language in feature films.

電視公司往往會在審查故事片時刪去其中的粗話。

來自柯林斯例句

2. The censor struck out the next two lines.

審查員劃掉了下面兩行。

來自柯林斯例句

3. The film has not been viewed by the censor.

這部影片還未經審查人員審查.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

4. The censor demanded that the scene be written out.

審查員要求把這個情節抹掉.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

5. The play was banned by the censor.

該劇本被查禁了.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》