单词：palimpsest
音标：['pælimpsest] ；
n. 重写本, 覆画
n. a manuscript (usually written on papyrus or parchment) on which more than one text has been written with the earlier writing incompletely erased and still visible
词型变化：名词复数形式 : palimpsests
词性分布：
palimpsest的用法和样例：
例句
用作名词(n.)
- This book is the most important palimpsest in the world,这本书是世界是最重要的重写本。
- All history was a palimpsest, scraped clean and reinscribed exactly as often as was necessary.全部历史都象一张不断刮干净重写的羊皮纸。
词汇搭配
- palimpsest sediment变质沉积物,变余沉积...
- palimpsest structure变余构造
经典引文
All history was a palimpsest, scraped clean and re-inscribed exactly as often as was necessary.
出自：G. Orwell