阉割 (yān gē) — to emasculate, to strip of essential content (used figuratively)
Definition
Literal sense: to castrate / emasculate (remove male animal's reproductive organs). Far more commonly used figuratively in HSK 7 contexts to mean 'strip a text, theory, or report of its essential content or force'.
verb
to emasculateto strip of essential content (used figuratively)
Examples
- 阉割。Zhè piān lùn wén de nèi róng bèi yán zhòng yān gē le.The content of this paper has been severely emasculated.
- 阉割。Zhèng fǔ shěn chá jī gòu yān gē le xīn wén bào dào de hé xīn guān diǎn.The government censorship agency emasculated the core viewpoints of the news reports.
- 阉割，。Tā men shì tú yān gē zhè ge lǐ lùn, shǐ tā shī qù pī pàn xìng.They tried to emasculate this theory, making it lose its critical edge.
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