pal.imp.sest

palimpsest的音标和读音：
DJ音标发音： [ˈpælimpˌsest]
KK音标发音： [ˈpælɪmpˌsɛst]

palimpsest的词性：
n.（名词）

1. A manuscript, typically of papyrus or parchment, that has been written on more than once, with the earlier writing incompletely erased and often legible.
重写本：尤指纸莎草纸或羊皮纸的底稿，已被写了不止一次，以前写的东西已被不完全擦掉，通常是清晰易读的

2. An object, a place, or an area that reflects its history:
反映历史的物体、地方或地区：

“Spaniards in the sixteenth century . . . saw an ocean moving south . . . through a palimpsest of bayous and distributary streams in forested paludal basins”(John McPhee)
“16世纪的西班牙人…通过森林里的沼泽盆地的河口和支流小溪的沉淀层…看到海洋向南移动”(约翰·麦克菲)

palimpsest的词源：

3. Latin palimps?stum
拉丁语 palimps?stum

4. from Greek palimps?ston [neuter of] palimps?stos [scraped again]
源自 希腊语 palimps?ston [] palimps?stos的中性 [再擦]

5. palin [again] * see k ^wel- ¹
palin [又] *参见 k ^wel- ¹

6. ps?n [to scrape]
ps?n [摩擦]