作业帮谁知道这是啥意思啊.to draw a sponge across sb's slateto close an account with
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谁知道这是啥意思啊.to draw a sponge across sb's slateto close an account with
谁知道这是啥意思啊.
to draw a sponge across sb's slate
to close an account with
谁知道这是啥意思啊.to draw a sponge across sb's slateto close an account with
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to draw a sponge across sb's slate字面上应该是指把某人的名字从石板上抹去吧,具体什么意思我就不清楚了...
给你个例子：
Britain had drawn a sponge across her slate.
= Britain was completely wiped out.（wipe out：彻底摧毁）
希望对你有所帮助啦~
"Draw a sponge across her slate", is a hundred year old idiom. Back in the early 20th century, and the late 19th Century, children used to write with chalk on a piece of slate. That was their notebo...
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"Draw a sponge across her slate", is a hundred year old idiom. Back in the early 20th century, and the late 19th Century, children used to write with chalk on a piece of slate. That was their notebook. Technically, "Draw a sponge across her slate" means to erase something, but I'd need to have more information from the passage in order to make a more accurate translation.
In the olden days school blackboards were made of assembled thin layers of slate which is a kind of blue-grey rock. These blackboards were cleaned with natural sponge which was harvested from the sea. To "draw a sponge across the slate" means "to move a piece of sponge across the surface of the slate blackboard" thereby cleaning it. Since there were usually some gaps between the joints of the slate layers, the chalk powder which get lodged in these gaps were therefore, not wiped or cleaned away when the sponge is "drawn" over it.
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