close an account with 与...结清帐目 to draw a sponge across sb's slate字面上应该是指把某人的名字从石板上抹去吧,具体什么意思我就不清楚了... 给你个例子: Britain had drawn a sponge across her slate. = Britain was completely wiped out.(wipe out:彻底摧毁) 希望对你有所帮助啦~
"Draw a sponge across her slate", is a hundred year old idiom. Back in the early 20th century, and the late 19th Century, children used to write with chalk on a piece of slate. That was their notebo...