(noun.) 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.
校对:弗恩
双语例句
It will be harder to read now than that palimpsest. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔.福尔摩斯归来记.
Well, Watson, it's as well we have not to turn out to-night, said Holmes, laying aside his lens and rolling up the palimpsest. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔.福尔摩斯归来记.