"edit a book on lexical semantics"
"she edited the letters of the politician so as to omit the most personal passages"
"The same family has been editing the influential newspaper for almost 100 years"
"edit film"
"cut recording tape"
"she edited the juiciest scenes"
1.编辑;编纂;校订
If youedit a text such as an article or a book, you correct and adapt it so that it is suitable for publishing.
e.g. The majority of contracts give the publisher the right toedit a book after it's done.
大多数合同都赋予出版商在书稿完成后进行校订的权利。
e.g. ...an edited version of the speech.
经校订的演讲稿
2.编选;选辑
If youedit a book or a series of books, you collect several pieces of writing by different authors and prepare them for publishing.
e.g. This collection of essays is edited by Ellen Knight...
这本文集是由埃伦·奈特编选的。
e.g. She has edited the media studies quarterly, Screen.
她编选了这本媒体研究季刊——《银幕》。
3.剪辑（电影、电视或广播节目）
If youedit a film or a television or radio programme, you choose some of what has been filmed or recorded and arrange it in a particular order.
e.g. He taught me toedit and splice film...
他教我电影剪接。
e.g. He is editing together excerpts of some of his films.
他正在将自己制作的一些电影的片断进行剪辑合成。
4.主编(报纸、杂志或期刊)
Someone whoedits a newspaper, magazine, or journal is in charge of it.
e.g. I used toedit the college paper in the old days.
以前我曾经做过大学校报的主编。
5.编辑;校订
Anedit is the process of examining and correcting a text so that it is suitable for publishing.
e.g. The purpose of theedit is fairly simple—to chop out the boring bits from the original.
编辑的目的非常简单——删掉原稿中那些无用的部分。
相关词组：edit out
1.
1. 文本编辑器：一个简单的Makefile文件,该文件描述了一个称为文本编辑器(edit)的可执行文件生成方法,该文件依靠8个OBJ文件(.o文件),它们又依靠8个C源程序文件和3个头文件.
2.edit：engineering design intelligent terminal; 工程设计智能终端
3.edit：experimental digital television; 实验数字电视
4.edit：error detection interactive transmission; 验错交互传输
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5.edit：editboxes; 编辑框
