palimpsest

发音

英 [ˈpælɪmpsest]word uk audio image

美 ['pælɪmpsest] word us audio image

  • n.
    重写本

单词词源

palimpsest 重写羊皮纸

来自希腊语palimpsestos,刮掉, 重写,来自palin,再一次,psen,刮,挠,词源同psoriasis.用于指古希腊时期一种可多次书写的羊皮纸。

双语例句

1. The spilite is greyish-green , display massive structure and locally pillow structures with palimpsest interweave texture and intergranular texture .
岩石呈灰绿色,块状构造,局部可见枕状构造,可见变余交织和变余粒间结构。
2. The surface sand layer ( 0 ~ 2 cm ) consists of residual or palimpsest sediments which were formed in the late Pleistocene and transformed in the post glacial transgression .
上表层(0~2cm)的砂质沉积层为冰后期海进过程改造的晚更新世残留沉积层,即变余沉积;
3. He examined without wrath , and with the eye of a linguist who is deciphering a palimpsest , that portion of chaos which still exists in nature .
他用语言学家考证古人遗墨的眼光,平心静气地观察自然界中迄今还存在着的多种多样的混乱现象。

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