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slate /sleɪt/► SEE ALL(put sth) on the slatea clean sheet/slatewipe the slate clean ●(put sth) on the ˈslate (informal) (put sth) on your account in a shop, a bar, etc. to be paid for later 赊账;挂账◆Can I put this on the slate? 我能不能把这个先记在账上? NOTE A slate is a thin sheet of a type of dark grey stone that was used in the past to write on. * slate 指旧时用来写字的一种深灰色石板。 ●a clean ˈsheet/ˈslatea record of your work or actions that does not show any mistakes or bad things that you have done 无过错记录;清白的历史◆At the new school, you will start with a clean slate.在新学校你会清清白白地重新开始。◆They kept a clean sheet in the match (= no goals were scored against them).他们在比赛中保持了未失一分的纪录。●wipe the slate ˈcleanagree to forget about past mistakes or arguments and start again with a relationship 把以往过错一笔勾销;捐弃前嫌◆We’re both to blame. Let’s wipe the slate clean and start again.我们俩都有错。让我们捐弃前嫌,重新开始吧。 ORIGIN In the past, people wrote on a slate with chalk (= a soft white stone). If you wiped it, you rubbed off the marks written on it. 旧时,人们用白垩(chalk)在石板上写字。擦掉后,上面的文字就没有了。 |