| 单词 | blank slate |
| 释义 | > as lemmasblank slate blank slate n. a person or thing likened to a slate which has not been written upon, in having an absence of content or innate characteristics, and thus with potential to develop (or be developed) in a wide variety of ways; cf. a clean slate at slate n.1 2b.In early use applied esp. to the mind, sometimes with reference to the theory (common in empirical philosophy) that humans are born without mental content; cf. tabula rasa at tabula n. 1b. ΚΠ 1889 Illustr. London News 12 Jan. 34/2 To find one's mind like a blank slate is a phenomenon.] 1889 Graphic 9 Nov. 567/2 Very ingenuous, and a mere blank slate as regards knowledge. 1931 Jrnl. Royal Soc. Arts 79 506 East Kent, though a blank slate industrially, is like the greater part of these islands a very complex palimpsest of civilised effort, past and present. 1990 A. Stevens On Jung iv. 54 The human infant is no blank slate, passively submitting to the inscription of life's lessons. 2015 Vancouver Sun 19 Aug. b4/1 Policy-wise, the Grits this spring replaced what had been an alarmingly blank slate with a suite of deftly calibrated measures. < as lemmas |
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