The proposal is to pay everything you owe, so that you can start with a clean slate.

奉劝你还清所有债务，这样你就可以重新开始。

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It's as if hand-washing in any form "wipes the slate clean" and removes the residual feelings and rationalizations associated with the choice, Lee said.

李说，这就好像任何形式的洗手都能“一笔勾销”，消除与选择有关的残留感觉和合理化。

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January is a popular time to wipe the SLATE clean.

一月正是推陈出新的大好时机。

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The creation almost of a clean slate, even more so I would argue than the disruption that it came after the fall of Rome, because there's one big difference.

这几乎就是从一张白纸重新创作,甚至比起,我认为,比起紧随罗马陷落而出现的分裂更有价值,因为这两者有一个巨大的差别

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"They have found an absolutely brilliant way to simultaneously show tremendous respect for everything that has gone before, while wiping the slate clean and being able to present the story fresh from the beginning, " he says.

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The Clean Slate Art Competition exhibition features artwork from youngsters aged from 13 to 19, created as part of Avon and Somerset Constabulary's youth engagement work.

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Batman Begins also showed that wiping the slate clean and starting over was completely fine.

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