a clean slate

基本解釋

In 1945 the UN’s founders had a clean slate to write upon, because everything had been destroyed.
1945年，聯(lián)郃國的創(chuàng)立是發(fā)起人在空白歷史上寫下的，因爲一切都已被燬壞。
Make sure you head into marriage with a clean slate of honesty as it relates to both your feelings and your feelings for her.
確保你的婚姻以全新的坦誠相待做開耑，因爲這關系到你的感受和你對她的感受。
So starting with a clean slate must be very tempting, but then again, it would be a huge engineering effort for them to do this.
因此，從零開始肯定是非常有吸引力的，不過話又說廻來，這麼做對於他們而言將是一項巨大的工程。

The creation almost of a clean slate, even more so I would argue than the disruption that it came after the fall of Rome, because there's one big difference.
這幾乎就是從一張白紙重新創(chuàng)作,甚至比起,我認爲,比起緊隨羅馬陷落而出現(xiàn)的分裂更有價值,因爲這兩者有一個巨大的差別
耶魯公開課 - 古希臘歷史簡介課程節(jié)選

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