Clean slate, 名词。明面上是“干净的石板” ，没有刻过字，没有污渍，就好像白纸一张。 它引申的意思就是“清白史”。

🌻If you start something with a clean slate ，then nothing bad from your past is taken into account.🌻

假设，你和朋友吵架了，有一天你们决定 start with a clean slate, 就是说你们想要忘记过往，[尽释前嫌，重新开始] 你们的友谊。

像台词里那样加个over也行，start over with a clean slate. （start off也可）

你和朋友说“Let's start with a clean slate”, 相当于“我们把之前的不愉快忘记吧”

再假设，一个惯偷决定收手，想改过自新，那么他一定很希望得到一个clean slate.

He just needed a clean slate.
这里clean slate 可以直接理解为“一个重新开始的机会” 。

等他改过自新后，我们还可以说He started over with a clean slate.
他洗心革面，从头来过了。

🌻if you are given a clean slate, you can start something again, and all of the problems caused by you or other people in the past will be forgotten.🌻


我表达得不好，意会吧 →_→

再来两例句：

I plowed under all last year's flowers so I could start with a clean slate next spring.

If I start off with a clean slate, then I'll know exactly what each plant is.