whitewash, greenwash, bowdlerized Nixonia

Hillary Clinton has a plan that she claims will reform Wall Street — but she’s deflecting responsibility from old friends and donors in the industry, writes The Nation Magazine's William Greider.

Hillary Clinton Is Whitewashing the Financial Catastrophe

William Greider in The Nation

BILLMOYERS.COM

Jonathan Jones on why there is nothing wrong in appreciating the sexual and sensual side of Renaissance Art. Even if it is kept in a stuffy old gallery.

'The traces of passion and danger, the stuff of life, can still be felt in old art if you look at it with a bit less reverence and a bit more blood in your veins.'

Guardian culture

Why sex should never be whitewashed from the art world

Jonathan Jones responds to prudish critics who accuse him of turning Renaissance art into a 'pornotopia' – and explains why you should always...

THE GUARDIAN|由 JONATHAN JONES 上傳

The Nixonian Whitewash, Scrubbed
The Nixon library has been turned over to the National Archives after serving for years as the center of bowdlerized Nixonia.

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South Korean carbon trading: green growth, or greenwashing?

South Korea has announced a carbon trading scheme, but not everyone is
convinced by the country’s 'Green Growth' program.

The DW-WORLD.DE Article
http://newsletter.dw-world.de/re?l=ew8604I44va89pI2




Twenty years after Chinese troops shot their way into the center of Beijing, killing hundreds of people and wounding many more, Mr. Chen provided a rare window into the military crackdown that re-established the Communist Party’s supremacy after six weeks of mass unrest and then, for most Chinese, disappeared in an official whitewash.


A unbowdlerized version of the diaries of Samuel Pepys was published around 1981.

如果你讀過楊振寧的傳記，或許你讀過他到美國的40-50年代，

許多人開始肆無忌憚說起禁忌話，讓他都聽不懂「美語」。
這種風氣自古以來就很盛，所以莎士比亞的作品中的這方面用語可以編成書。

我們再跟諸位介紹Thomad Bowdler 先生，他在1815年出版『家庭用的消毒版莎士比亞集』（Family Shakespeare） ，將許多「不宜觀賞」處刪除，所以英文現在有一字（動詞verb [T] DISAPPROVING）
bowdlerize, UK ALSO bowdlerise

to remove words or parts from a book, play or film that are considered to be unsuitable or offensive:
The version of the play that I saw had been dreadfully bowdlerized.


這也是為什麼，大陸在翻譯 DICTIONARY of OBSCENITY & TABOO 的時候， 必須採用梁實秋先生翻譯的「莎士比亞全集」，因為這髒詞禁忌語的全譯，僅此一家，別無分號。

Word Overheard: bowdlerize

The New York Times made its feelings about Richard Nixon clear in an editorial about his presidential library. According to the newspaper, the censored version of the Nixon archives would have made Thomas Bowdler proud (he's the guy who cleaned out the parts of Shakespeare he deemed objectionable):

"The library at Yorba Linda, Calif., has been turned over to the National Archives after serving for years as the center of bowdlerized Nixonia. The institution insulted history by peddling ludicrous whitewashings..."

Link: The Nixonian Whitewash, Scrubbed - New York Times
Posted July 16, 2007.

bowdlerize

(bōd'lə-rīz', boud'-) 

tr.v., -ized, -iz·ing, -iz·es.
To remove material that is considered offensive or objectionable from (a book, for example).

[After Thomas Bowdler (1754–1825), who published an expurgated edition of Shakespeare in 1818.]

bowdlerism bowd'ler·ism n.
bowdlerization bowd'ler·i·za'tion (-lər-ĭ-zā'shən) n.
bowdlerizer bowd'ler·iz'er n.

whitewash

Line breaks: white|wash

Pronunciation: /ˈwʌɪtwɒʃ /

NOUN

• 1[MASS NOUN] A solution of lime and water or of whiting, size, and water, used for painting walls white.
  

  
  
• 1.1[IN SINGULAR] A deliberate attempt to conceal unpleasant or incriminating facts about a person or organization in order to protect their reputation:the opposition called the report ‘a whitewash’
  

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• • informal A victory by the same side in every game of a series:the Lions went downhill to a 4-0 whitewash
  

  
  

VERB

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• 1(usually as adjective whitewashed) Paint (a wall, building, or room) with whitewash:a suntrap surrounded by trees and whitewashed walls
  

  
  
• 1.1Deliberately attempt to conceal unpleasant or incriminating facts about (a person or organization):his wife must have wanted to whitewash his reputation
  

  
  
• 2• informal Defeat (an opponent) in every game of a series:Ireland were whitewashed 5-0
  

Derivatives

whitewasher

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whitewash

[名]

1 [U]（壁・天井などの上塗り用）水しっくい, のろ.

2 [C][U]（過失・欠点の）ごまかし策, うわべの飾り.

3 ((米略式))（スポーツで）零敗.

━━[動](他)

1 …にのろ［水しっくい］を塗る；白く照らす.

2 …の欠点［過失］を隠す, うわべを飾る

The government tries to whitewash the country's racial problems.
政府は国内の人種問題をとりつくろおうとしている.

3 ((米略式))（スポーツで）…を零敗させる.

生態時尚(Eco Chic): "Green Washing"漂綠

2008年8月5日 ... "Green Washing"漂綠. 當一片環保聲浪，到處充斥著愛地球、愛生態的感性 ... "Greenwash (a portmanteau of green and whitewash) is a term used to ...

bowdlerize, ((主に英))-ise[bowd・ler・ize, ((主に英))-ise]

• 発音記号[bóudləràiz | báud-]

[動](他)〈著作物の〉不穏当な箇所を削除訂正する；（自主検閲で）〈作品を〉手直しする.

［Shakespeareを勝手に削除訂正した英国の編集者Thomas Bowdler（1754-1825）から］

-ism

[名]

bòwd・ler・i・zá・tion

[名]