palimpsest
/pal-imp-sest/US // ˈpæl ɪmpˌsɛst //UK // (ˈpælɪmpˌsɛst) //
重写本,重写本杂志,移花接木,移花接木法
Related Words
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Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : a parchment or the like from which writing has been partially or completely erased to make room for another text.
- : something that has a new layer, aspect, or appearance that builds on its past and allows us to see or perceive parts of this past: Most of what we actually see when we view any culture is a historical palimpsest, with traces of former times.Today's towering Romanesque-Gothic structure is a palimpsest, the result of numerous additions and reconstructions.Memory is a palimpsest that is continually being written over, but never perfectly so.
Synonyms & Antonyms
as inmanuscript
as intabula rasa
Examples
Can you talk about how the palimpsest informs the structure of your novel?
In a figurative way, palimpsest refers to an object or place that reflects its own history.
Which, in such cases—the act or the utterance, the gesture or the text—is the palimpsest of other?
The palimpsest of memory recalled with intensest vividness the Christian teachings of his childhood.
She longed to penetrate below the surface and decipher the strange palimpsest of human life.
What else than a natural and mighty palimpsest is the human brain?
This shows that naturally, and without violent agencies, the human brain is by tendency a palimpsest.
You know perhaps, masculine reader, better than I can tell you, what is a Palimpsest.
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