Question of the Day #1045

New York Passes Automatic Criminal Record Expungement ‘Clean Slate’ Law

From the headline of this article at Forbes.

  上記の文で、clean slateの意味は？
In the sentence above, what does "clean slate" mean?

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解答

意味：
英辞郎によると、

1. 《a ～》白紙の状態
2. 《a ～》きれいな［汚れのない・汚点のない・申し分のない・立派な］経歴
3. 《a ～》前科のない人物

   

Answer

According to The Free Dictionary:

An opportunity to start fresh despite past mistakes or problems.

 

Examples

• Everyone who comes to this school starts with a clean slate.
• I know we've had our differences, but I'd like to repair our friendship. Can we start over with a clean slate?
• I really appreciate you giving me a clean slate after I failed that first test.
• But Chencho prefers to enter this new era with a clean slate. —Griselda Flores, Billboard, 22 Sep. 2023
• What better time to make a break from that — and what better place to find a clean slate for it — than California, the new, the last horizon of that vanishing frontier? Newsletter Los Angeles is a complex place. —Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2023

   

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