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发音：[senˈsɔriəs]
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例句：
- When using the word censorious to describe a person or an organization, we want to suggest that person or organization has a tendency to judge everything by unreasonably strict standards.
- These artists fear for the current and future viability of their work in an environment that gets more censorious each year.
- Culture warriors, mostly on the right, charge that the platform has become a censorious extension of an identity-politics-obsessed liberal establishment.
- At a recent conference he said that web blocking could be used by censorious governments to filter out content they deemed politically sensitive.
- Facebook is also facing complaints from critics who argue the network is not censorious enough and is failing to root-out extremist or abusive content.
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解释：
- Censorious这个单词做形容词，其表示“marked by harshly critical or given to censure”这一含义，即“爱挑剔的/吹毛求疵的/受审查的/严苛的”，与critical/hypercritical/captious这些单词构成近义词。
- 具体使用场景如下：
- At a recent conference he said that web blocking could be used by censorious governments to filter content they deemed politically sensitive.（在最近的一次会议上，他说，审查政府可能会利用网络封锁来过滤他们认为政治敏感的内容。）
—News - He has used his considerable influence — he has 85 million Twitter followers — to express dissatisfaction about what he sees as a censorious liberal culture in technology and media.（他利用自己相当大的影响力——他拥有8500万Twitter粉丝——猛烈抨击他认为在技术和媒体领域存在审查的自由文化。）
—Arts and Culture - Some users Friday argued that Truth Social, which has promoted itself as a free-speech shrine to rival what they call Twitter’s censorious “cancel culture,” had worked to suppress discussion of the hearing outright.（一些用户周五辩称，Truth Social将自己宣传为言论自由的避难所，以与他们所谓的Twitter的审查性“取消文化”相媲美，它一直在努力彻底压制对听证会的讨论。）
—Business - Under the censorious restrictions of the period none of this is spelled out explicitly, which makes it more powerful: the reader’s mind imagines the worst of all scenarios.（在那个时期的审查严格限制下，这些都没有明确地阐明，这使得它更加强大：读者的头脑想象着所有场景中最糟糕的情况。）
—Politics
