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单词 palimpsest
释义
palimpsest
noun[C]
uk
/ˈpæl.ɪm.sest/us
/ˈpæl.ɪmp.sest/
a veryoldtextordocumentin which writing has beenremovedandcoveredorreplacedby new writing
（全部或部分原有文字被刮去，在上面另行书写的）重写羊皮书卷
formal
something such as aworkofartthat has manylevelsofmeaning,typesofstyle, etc. thatbuildon each other:
具有多种意义的事物；多种风格交织的事物（如艺术品等）
Hisperformanceis a palimpsest in which youseeall thelayersof asinglelife.他的表演有多种含义，让你看到一个人生的所有层次。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Papers and compositions
  • boilerplate
  • composition
  • dissertation
  • essay
  • monograph
  • paper
  • peer review
  • review
  • thesis
  • tract
  • treatise

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Pieces of writing
Covering and adding layers
(Definition ofpalimpsestfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofpalimpsest

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The attempts once more to create meaningful national states out of ethnic palimpsests have proven disastrous.
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Moreover, by its simplistic narrative it has also seriously misrepresented the palimpsests of structures and things excavated.
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Cities have often been likened to palimpsests.
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To return to our starting point, does the prevalent image of thepalimpsestor layered space sufficiently acknowledge inter-subjectivity?
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Slyomovics invokes the idea of apalimpsest, a canvas on which layers of painted realities reveal underlying layers through the dominating, top image.
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Inalienable possessions, then, reveal apalimpsestof historical change.
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Like memory, archaeological material bears the mark of repetition, as exemplified by the specifically archaeological form of thepalimpsest.
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What we have is apalimpsestof looks and gazes sometimes taken from context, at other times set among material facts that blunt hermeneutic tools.
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Once again the novel repeatedly turns inwards to examine its own nature, presenting itself as a kind ofpalimpsest.
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The metaphoricalpalimpsestof pagan defences is pushed up, beyond the gate/fence episode, against the spirits of the forest.
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Culture is apalimpsest, and can only be read as such.
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Because the new reasoning and the old language often appeared simultaneously, every zoning decision was apalimpsestof sorts.
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The head is apalimpsest.
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In this one recognises that all culture is contingent, and that the place of criticism on what constitutes a larger map is part of thepalimpsestof markings and erasures.
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However, there is little evidence of formation of palimpsests through viscoelastic crustal relaxation, unlike on other large icy moons.
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