【英语学习】【WOTD】palimpsest 释义/词源/示例

冷不防 2022-01-29 00:23 100阅读 0赞

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*  Podcast
 *  palimpsest \*n.\* \[PAL-imp-sest\]
 *  Definition
 *  Did You Know?
 *  Examples

# Podcast #

[palimpsest podcast][]

# palimpsest *n.* \[PAL-imp-sest\] #

（原有文字已擦除的）重写本

# Definition #

1: writing material (such as a parchment or tablet) used one or more times after earlier writing has been erased  
1：书写用的材料（例如羊皮纸或者片状物），在将先前的书写记录擦除后，可以多次使用。

2: something having usually diverse layers or aspects apparent beneath the surface  
2：明显的具有多层或者多个方面，层层叠加的物品。

注：parchment：羊皮纸，仿羊皮纸；tablet：药片，**匾额**，片状物，平板电脑

# Did You Know? #

Long ago, writing surfaces were so rare that they were often used more than once. *Palimpsest* originally described an early form of recycling in which an old document was erased to make room for a new one when parchment ran short. (The word is from the Greek *palimpsēstos*, meaning “scraped again.”) Fortunately for modern scholars, the erasing process wasn’t completely effective, so the original could often be distinguished under the newer writing. *De republica*, by Roman statesman and orator Cicero, is one of many documents thus recovered from a palimpsest. Nowadays, the word *palimpsest* can refer not only to such a document but to anything that has multiple layers.

词源词根演化：*palimpsēstos* (“scraped again”) —> palimpsest (n.)

很久之前，书写用的介质非常珍贵，所以常常被反复使用多次。palimpsest这个词，最早用于描述一个重用技术，如果羊皮纸短缺的话，就将早期的文字从羊皮纸上擦除掉，为新文本腾出空间。（这个词来自于希腊单词*palimpsēstos*，意思是“再次擦除”。）幸运的是，早期的这种擦除技术不是特别有效，所以现代学者往往可以分辨恢复出新文字覆盖之下的旧文本。《De republic》这本书，罗马政治家与演讲家西塞罗（Cicero）所著，就是诸多从旧重写本中被恢复出来的书之一。在现代，palimpsest这个词不但可以指代这种老式的重写本，还可以指代任何具有多个层面的事物。

# Examples #

*  “Among those handwritten manuscripts are 130 that have additional secrets: They are *palimpsests*, documents in which the original text was erased and written over, the parchment considered more valuable than the text.”  
    — **Sarah Laskow**, *Atlas Obscura*, 29 Aug. 2017  
    在这些手写稿之中，有130件还另有奥秘：他们是覆写本，即旧文本被擦除后有写上了新文本，羊皮纸被认为比文字更有价值。
 *  “Large and medium-sized canvases in varying stages of completion covered most of the wall space in the studio … and the floor was a *palimpsest* of rags, used paper palettes, brushes, metal tubs filled with defunct tubes of Old Holland oil paint, colored pencils and broken charcoal sticks, … and other debris.”  
    — **Calvin Tomkins and Dodie Kazanjian**, *The New Yorker*, 10 Apr. 2017  
    处于各种完成阶段的大尺寸和中尺寸的画布覆盖了工作室的大部分墙面 … 而地板简直就是各种材料的覆盖本，包括破布，用过的纸调色板，画刷，充斥着无用的旧荷兰油画颜料的金属管，彩色铅笔，断了的碳棒，…，以及其他的杂物残渣。

[palimpsest podcast]: https://rss.art19.com/episodes/d2af89c8-055f-4672-845a-977cc804cf9b.mp3