tabula rasa 白板
- The mind of a person who has been badly taught must be borne a tabula rasa before he can learn anything properly.
一个教养恶劣的人,必须先恢复其心地的清白,才能有效地学习任何事物。 - Few of them based on China's notorious tabula rasa, many of them try to find new relationships between historical substance and new buildings, others effectively densify carelessly planned extensions.
它们中鲜有,其中很多都致力于找到历史遗存与新建筑的全新关系,另外一些则有效地改善了缺乏规划的扩建工程。
tabula rasa[ noun ]- a young mind not yet affected by experience (according to John Locke)
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- an opportunity to start over without prejudice
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Tabula \Tab"u*la\, n.; pl. {Tabul[ae]}. [L.]
1. A table; a tablet.
2. (Zo["o]l.) One of the transverse plants found in the
calicles of certain corals and hydroids.
{Tabula rasa}[L.], a smoothed tablet; hence, figuratively,
the mind in its earliest state, before receiving
impressions from without; -- a term used by Hobbes, Locke,
and others, in maintaining a theory opposed to the
doctrine of innate ideas.