edit

詳細解釋：

ed.it

v.tr.（及物動詞）
ed.it.ed,ed.it.ing,ed.its

To prepare (written material) for publication or presentation, as by correcting, revising, or adapting.
編輯：為出版或公布而準備（書面材料），如通過更正、修改或改寫
To prepare an edition of for publication:
發行：為出版準備版本：
例句：
edit a collection of short stories.
發行短篇小說集

To modify or adapt so as to make suitable or acceptable:
修改：修改或改變使之合宜或易於接受：
例句：
edited her remarks for presentation to a younger audience.
修改她的言論以適合青年聽眾

To supervise the publication of (a newspaper or magazine, for example).
主編：主管如（如，報紙或雜誌）的出版
To assemble the components of (a film or soundtrack, for example), as by cutting and splicing.
剪輯：集中（如，影片或錄音）的各部分，如通過剪裁和拼湊
To eliminate; delete:
刪除；劃掉：
例句：
edited the best scene out.
刪掉最好的一幕

n.（名詞）
An act or instance of editing:
編輯：編輯行為或事實：
例句：
made several last-minute edits for reasons of space.
臨時編了幾個版以填滿篇幅

來源：
Partly back-formation from editor
部分為 editor的逆成詞
and partly from French éditer [to publish] from Latin ôditus [past participle of] ôdere * see edition
並且部分源自 法文 éditer [出版] 源自 拉丁語 ôditus [] ôdere的過去分詞 *參見 edition

<注釋>The wordedit is often cited as an example of back-formation. In other words, edit is not the source ofeditor, asdive is of diver, the expected derivational pattern;rather, the reverse is the case. Edit in the sense .to prepare for publication,. first recorded in 793,comes fromeditor, first recorded in 72 in the sense .one who edits..There is more to the story, however. Edit also partly comes from the French wordéditer, .to publish, edit,. first recorded in 784.In the case ofedit, two processes, borrowing and back-formation, have thus occurred either independently or together,perhaps one person takingedit from French originally, another fromeditor, and yet a third from both.
單詞edit 常用來作為逆構詞的一個範例， 換句話說， edit 並不是editor 的語源， 就象dive 不是 diver 的語源， 這是我們臆想中的派生模式；當然，這種逆構詞只是一種範例而已。 Edit 作為.準備出版物.的意義最早記錄於793年，這是從editor 來的， 它在72年就以.編輯者.的意義首次記錄。但這裡還有更多的故事。 Edit 的一部分來源於法文詞éditer ，即.出版、編輯.， 它最早記錄於784年。在edit 這個詞中含有兩種造詞過程，外借和逆構， 可能是分開進行也可能是同時起作用，或許一個人從原法文詞中借用了edit 這個字， 而另一人則從editor 中造出新字， 第三個人卻從兩個詞源中得到這個字