It's pretty much the same thing. In writing, you have a blank page for you to start with.

VOA: special.2011.08.08

So, let me go had and let's swivel this around for just a moment so we have a blank slate and now what's really going on?

我把它旋转一下,这样就有一块空白了,到底发生了什么呢？

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

You should be able to maybe print out a blank copy of those notes from the website not for memorizing them, but now just understanding how the photoelectric effect works.

你们应该可以从网站上打印一份,这些笔记中的空白的纸张,不仅仅是为了记忆，而且现在要理解,光电效应是如何工作的。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

In an appearance a blank check. before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Ambassador Holbrooke said President Obama's decision to send 21,000 additional troops to Afghanistan would help bolster the war effort.

VOA: standard.2009.05.12

Sudoku And then Sudoku we did last year where it actually becomes a little more interesting where we start providing students not with a blank slate, but with some distribution code.

我们去年做的,实际上更有意思,我们给学生的不是一块白板，而是一些分布式代码。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

MENENDEZ: "I'm just not here a blank check. I said that in the previous administration, and as much as I respect this one, I believe the same standards have to apply."

VOA: standard.2009.05.12

Are there mysteries or puzzles about people that the physicalist just draws a blank, but if we become dualists, we can explain these features?

是否存在某些人类的奥秘或谜团,物理主义对此束手无策,而二元论者,却能解释它们

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

He had the feeling that everything he saw was a broken-off piece of some giant blank thing he had forgotten had happened to him.

他有种感觉,觉得他看见的一切都是之前发生过的,他已经忘记的,某件大而无用的事掉落的碎片。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

No karmic similarities of personality or anything, just starts over like a blank slate.

没有人格或者任何什么的因果和相似，只是完全重新开始。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

So what O'Connor does, is she presents a sense of the world imbued with structure and meaning, but a structure and meaning that looks essentially blank.

所以奥康纳所做的是，呈现一个充满了构架,和实义感的世界，只不过这些构架和实义,看起来完全是空无一物的。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

I think that no matter how we try to fill in the blank, it's a very long blank.

我认为不论我们多么努力地填补空白，那是一个很长的空白。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

And then you get that sort of lyrical moment of interpretation: "He had the feeling that everything he saw was a broken-off piece of some giant blank thing he had forgotten had happened to him."

然后你就能看到那句抒情的解释：,“他有种感觉,觉得他看见的一切都是之前发生过的,他已经忘记的,某件大而无用的事掉落的碎片，“

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

They came formatted or blank so not such a big deal.

它们被格式化了或者是空白的这并不重要。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

So on the monist view-- which we'll call "Physicalism," because it says that what people just are, are these physical objects--on the physicalist view, a person is just a body that can...you fill in the blank.

所以一元论观点,我们称作其为"物理主义",因为它认为人只不过,是个物理对象,物理主义认为,人只是可以...你能举出很多例子

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选