| 单词 | blank canvas |
| 释义 | > as lemmasblank canvas blank canvas n. something likened to an artist's canvas before it is painted, esp. something unformed or open-ended enough to allow for a wide range of creative possibilities; cf. blank slate n. at Additions.Earliest as part of an extended metaphor, with reference to painting; later often transferred to other artistic contexts. ΚΠ 1817 S. T. Coleridge Biographia Literaria I. v. 45 We seem to ourselves merely passive to an external power, whether as a mirror reflecting the landscape, or as a blank canvas on which some unknown hand paints it.] 1848 Athenæum 2 Dec. 1216/3 The aria..presents a wider surface of blank canvas than most of Handel's oratorio songs. 1947 Times Lit. Suppl. 21 June 311/2 Shakespeare had far more to communicate than anyone else, and he could not do it if he started with a blank canvas. 2016 Cardiff Life Oct. 86/3 With its tasteful, neutral decor..this gorgeous des res is pretty much a blank canvas. < as lemmas |
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