palimpsest 的定义
- 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.
palimpsest 近义词
等同于 manuscript
palimpsest 的近义词 5 个
等同于 tabula rasa
等同于 parchment
更多palimpsest例句
- 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.