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Facebook revamps its community guidelines

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Facebook revamps its takedown guidelines. [摘自BBC 新聞頭條]

takedown 拿下；拆掉；拆除

(noun 名詞)

例子：The rewrite was intended to address confusion about why some takedown requests were rejected.

新版使用條例中，「危險組織」獨立成章，還具體補充了祼體照片的分享限制：

Its revamped community standards now include a separate section on "dangerous organisations" and give more details about what types of nudity it allows to be posted.

revamp 修改；翻新

(noun/ verb 名詞 / 動詞)

► revamp = renovate

nudity 祼體

(noun 名詞)

► nude 祼體的 (adjective 形容詞)

► nude 祼體畫 / 塑像 (noun 名詞)

新例之下，身體什麼部分不可以祼露呢？條文寫得甚為細緻：

Facebook now states that images "focusing in on fully exposed buttocks" are banned, as are "images of female breasts if they include the nipple".

buttocks 屁股

(noun 名詞)

nipple 乳頭

(noun 名詞)

除了一般照片，電腦畫圖或改圖也在此限，除非該圖像旨在教育或諷刺：

The restrictions extend to digitally-created content, unless posts are for educational or satirical purposes.

satirical 諷刺的

(adjective 形容詞)

► satirical = sarcastic = humorous

其他加添補充部分包括：

Bullying 欺凌

禁止上載貶低或侮辱個人的改圖和記錄欺凌過程的錄影片段

► degrade 貶低 / 侮辱 (verb 動詞)

= humiliate

Hate speech 仇恨言論

指因為對於特定種族、文化、宗教或姓別、甚至國家或政治主張不同的族群之偏見，所造成的憎恨而引發的言論，目的是矮化特定族群，或是激化族群間的對立。

Criminal activity 犯罪行為

Self-injury 自殘

但整型或整容 (body modification) 則不在此限

► modify 修整 (verb 動詞)

Kevin 教室

detail 仔細說明

(verb 動詞)

例子：It wasn't something that was detailed before.

例子：The report details the whole event.

detail 詳情 / 細節

(noun 名詞)

► Can you show/tell me the details? (plural - countable)

► a detail (countable)

例子：Can you show me a detail of the picture? (a part of it made bigger so that we can see the smaller features)

► detail (uncountable) = small features of sth

例子：Girls tend to pay attention to detail.

► discuss sth in detail

► please don’t go into details / go into the detail

detailed 詳細的

(adjective 形容詞)

例子：The report contains detailed descriptions of the event.


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