blank canvas

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An unmarked or empty state, offering a limitless potential for creation, development or interpretation. also,figuratively
    — Near-synonyms: new canvas, clean slate, new page, new sheet, new leaf
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see blank, canvas.
    — There are no such personal revelations in The Madonna of the Future, nor anything, indeed, at all characteristic of Mr James. There is beauty in the tale of the American painter who dreams over a model for twenty years, while he and she grow old, and leaves at his death nothing more to show for his dreams than a cracked blank canvas; […]

词形变化

blank canvases plural blank canvasses plural

词源

By analogy with artists who begin with a blank canvas, thereby possessing the freedom to shape it according to their creative inclinations.
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