palimpsest

noun

1. 再生羊皮纸卷，重写羊皮书卷（全部或部分原有文字被刮去，在上面另行书写）
   an ancient document from which some or all of the original text has been removed and replaced by a new text
2. 具有多重意义的事物；多层次的东西
   something that has many different layers of meaning or detail

1. He examined without wrath, and with the eye of a linguist who is deciphering a palimpsest, that portion of chaos which still exists in nature.
   他用语言学家考证古人遗墨的眼光，平心静气地观察自然界中迄今还存在着的多种多样的混乱现象。
2. Palimpsest: On the Traces of Fairy Tale Rewriting in "Glass Coffin" by A.S.Byatt
   羊皮纸效应：A.S.拜厄特《水晶棺》中童话改写的痕迹
3. The surface sand layer ( 0~ 2 cm) consists of residual or palimpsest sediments which were formed in the late Pleistocene and transformed in the post glacial transgression.
   上表层（0~2cm）的砂质沉积层为冰后期海进过程改造的晚更新世残留沉积层，即变余沉积；
4. The spilite is greyish-green, display massive structure and locally pillow structures with palimpsest interweave texture and intergranular texture.
   岩石呈灰绿色，块状构造，局部可见枕状构造，可见变余交织和变余粒间结构。

noun

1. a manuscript (usually written on papyrus or parchment) on which more than one text has been written with the earlier writing incompletely erased and still visible