palimpsest

詳細解釋：

pal.imp.sest

n.（名詞）
A manuscript, typically of papyrus or parchment, that has been written on more than once, with the earlier writing incompletely erased and often legible.
重寫本：尤指紙莎草紙或羊皮紙的底稿，已被寫了不止一次，以前寫的東西已被不完全擦掉，通常是清晰易讀的
An object, a place, or an area that reflects its history:
反映歷史的物體、地方或地區：
例句：
.Spaniards in the sixteenth century . . . saw an ocean moving south . . . through a palimpsest of bayous and distributary streams in forested paludal basins.(John McPhee)
.'世紀的西班牙人…通過森林里的沼澤盆地的河口和支流小溪的沉澱層…看到海洋向南移動.(約翰·麥克菲)

來源：
Latin palimpsôstum
拉丁語 palimpsôstum
from Greek palimpsôston [neuter of] palimpsôstos [scraped again]
源自 希臘語 palimpsôston [] palimpsôstos的中性 [再擦]
palin [again] * see k wel-
palin [又] *參見 k wel-
psôn [to scrape]
psôn [摩擦]