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tabula rasa

/tab-yuh-luh -rah-suh, -zuh, rey-; Latin tah-boo-lah -rah-sah/US // ˈtæb yə lə ˈrɑ sə, -zə, ˈreɪ-; Latin ˈtɑ bʊˌlɑ ˈrɑ sɑ //

白纸黑字,白板,白皮书,白纸一张

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural ta·bu·lae ra·sae [tab-yuh-lee -rah-see, -zee, rey-; Latin tah-boo-lahy -rah-sahy]. /ˈtæb yəˌli ˈrɑ si, -zi, ˈreɪ-; Latin ˈtɑ bʊˌlaɪ ˈrɑ saɪ/.

    • : a mind not yet affected by experiences, impressions, etc.
    • : anything existing undisturbed in its original pure state.

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Examples

  • I’m going to cast away those things and really approach this tabula rasa.

  • He narrowed down the key genes responsible for instructing tabula rasa cells to become other types of cells, but the animals were still many steps removed from humans.

  • During the Enlightenment, the fresh start idea was given a philosophical boost when John Locke argued that each person begins life with a tabula rasa, what we think of today as a “blank slate.”

  • Rasa said 15 people were injured in the attack, and four of them are in critical condition.

  • “All the injuries we treated were consistent with laceration-type injuries,” said Rasa.

  • Rasa added: “As far as I can tell most of the victims were students.”

  • “It was a chaotic scene,” said Capt. Robert Rasa of the Cy-Fair Volunteer Fire Department.

  • Asked why the suspect would use a knife, Rasa had no explanation.

  • In his Tabula ad situandos et concordandos menses cum signis in dorso astrolabii in Atti della soc.

  • The soul, originally a tabula rasa, is gradually perfected by the ideas which theoretical speculation acquires.

  • It was said to be impossible to escape, from one end of the country to the other, the tin-tan-tabula of their jubilation.

  • The two former are lost, and most scholars deny the authenticity of the Tabula on the ground of material and verbal anachronisms.

  • Item alia tabula expositoria vocabulorum difficilium eiusdem Biblie.