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A palimpsest is an old document — often animal skin, in the days before cheap paper — where someone off the first writing and wrote something new on top. If you look very carefully, you can sometimes still see the old words underneath.
A palimpsest palimpsest 是指一份舊文件——often通常是 animal skin動物皮革，in the days before cheap paper在便宜紙張出現之前的年代——where在上面 someone有人 scraped off刮掉了 the first writing原本的文字 and wrote something new再寫上新的東西 on top在上面。If you look very carefully如果你仔細看，you can sometimes still see你有時候還是能看到 the old words underneath底下的舊文字。
Museums and scholars love palimpsests because the hidden writing can be a lost book.
Museums and scholars博物館和學者 love palimpsests很喜歡 palimpsest，because因為 the hidden writing底下藏著的文字 can be a lost book可能是一本失傳的書。
Though actually, people now also use the word for anything that has old layers under new ones: a city, a memory, a wall of paint. That later use belongs to books and careful talk. In a history class, it still means the real scraped-and-rewritten page.
Though actually不過其實，people now現在的人也 also use the word會用這個字，for anything that has old layers under new ones來指任何新的底下藏著舊的層次的東西：a city一座城市、a memory一段記憶、a wall of paint一面油漆牆。That later use這種後來的用法 belongs to books and careful talk比較常出現在書面和講究的談話裡。In a history class但在歷史課上，it這個字 still means還是指 the real scraped-and-rewritten page那種真正被刮掉重寫的頁面。
It is a rare, educated word. You will not hear it on the bus.
It這 is a rare, educated word是個少見、有學問的字。You will not hear it你不會聽到有人 on the bus在公車上講這個字。
core核心畫面
組成From Latin palimpsēstus, from Ancient Greek παλίμψηστος (palímpsēstos, “scraped again”). palin- is “again” or “back”; the rest is about scraping the surface clean.
同家族的字
- palindromeshares Greek palin-, “back” or “again”
原始詞典資料10 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
palimpsestnoun/ˈpælɪmpsɛst/
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A manuscript or document that has been erased or scraped clean, for reuse of the paper, parchment, vellum, or other medium on which it was written.
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archaicMonumental brasses that have been reused by engraving of the blank back side.
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astronomynatural-sciencesCircular features believed to be lunar craters that have been obliterated by later volcanic activity.
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geographygeologynatural-sciencesGeological features thought to be related to features or effects below the surface.
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computingengineeringmathematicsMemory that has been erased and re-written.
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The partial erasure of or superimposition on an older society or culture by a newer one.
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Something bearing the traces of an earlier, erased form.
- But on her he did not see even the palimpsest of a smile.
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A text with several layers of meaning, especially pertaining to different points in time.
- I also agree there's more instrumental development that needs doing. For all we know there's a fourth layer to the palimpsest.
- Miraculously, the Stasi's record of Garton Ash's years in Berlin remained intact, and in his extraordinary book The File he recalls going back to Berlin, sifting through the material, and piecing together those years for himself. The result is a palimpsest of memories, observations recorded by informants and agents, and the recollections in his own diaries at that time.
palimpsestverb/ˈpælɪmpsɛst/
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To scrape clean, as in parchment, for reuse.
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On paper: to reuse, often by erasure or change of pen direction or color. Especially fueled by Earth Day.
- Typically refers to a multi-layered work, e.g.: new ads covering old on a roadside sign.
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