Definition
阉割 literally means 'to castrate (animals)', but it is used figuratively in academic, political, and media contexts to mean 'to emasculate, to strip of essential content, to neuter'. It carries a strong negative connotation of deliberately removing the most important or critical parts of a theory, argument, or piece of writing.
v.
to emasculateto strip of essential content (used figuratively)
Examples
- 阉割。Zhè piān lùnwén de nèiróng bèi yánzhòng yān gē le.The content of this paper has been severely emasculated.
- 阉割。Zhèngfǔ shěnchá jīgòu yān gē le xīnwén bàodào de héxīn guāndiǎn.The government censorship agency emasculated the core viewpoints of the news reports.
- 阉割，。Tāmen shìtú yān gē zhège lǐlùn, shǐ tā shīqù pīpàn xìng.They tried to emasculate this theory, making it lose its critical edge.
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