travestied v. 错误地描述,歪曲(travesty 的过去式和过去分词)
- It ends with the words, "Was ever a thinker so travestied?"
该书的最后说“有哪个思想家遭打如此歪曲?” - Most controversially, without legal recourse museum pieces and specimens from an earlier age risk being travestied in unseemly ways.
其中最富争议的问题是,在不诉诸法律的情况下,博物馆年代较为久远的作品和样本面临着以不当方式被曲解模仿的风险。
Travesty \Trav"es*ty\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Travestied}; p. pr.
& vb. n. {Travesting}.]
To translate, imitate, or represent, so as to render
ridiculous or ludicrous.
I see poor Lucan travestied, not appareled in his Roman
toga, but under the cruel shears of an English tailor.
--Bentley.