English Dictionary

blank canvas

名詞

比喩的用法

(figuratively) Something with no content, upon which one can easily impose or project one's point of view. / Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see blank, canvas.

日本語の意味

内容が何も決まっていない状態、あるいは基礎として自由に形を成し始める余地があるもの。 / 空白の状態、他者が容易に自身の意見や解釈を付け加えることが可能な状況。

When we started the community project, the neglected lot became a blank canvas for residents' ideas.

地域のプロジェクトを始めたとき、その放置された空き地は住民のアイデアを反映できる白紙の状態になった。

意味（1）

(figuratively) Something with no content, upon which one can easily impose or project one's point of view.

After his ex-wife moved out, his life was a blank canvas.

意味（2）

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see blank, canvas.

There are no such personal revelations in The Madonna of the Future, nor anything, indeed, at all characteristic of Mr James. There is beauty in the tale of the American painter who dreams over a model for twenty years, while he and she grow old, and leaves at his death nothing more to show for his dreams than a cracked blank canvas; […]

blank canvases （ plural ）

blank canvasses （ plural ）