单词
parallel
英 ['p?r?lel]
美['p?r?l?l]
基本信息
- n. 平行线；对比
- vt. 使…与…平行
- adj. 平行的；类似的，相同的
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词态变化
复数:?parallels;第三人称单数:?parallels;过去式:?parallelled;过去分词:?parallelled;现在分词:?parallelling;
助记提示
1、par- / para- "beside" + allel-.
2、字面意思就是：beside one another.
2、字面意思就是：beside one another.
中文词源
parallel 平行的，并列的
来自希腊语parallelos,并列，平行，para-,在旁，在周围，-allel,改变，另外的，词源同else,alternate.即在旁边的另外一条，引申词义平行的，并列的。
英文词源
- parallel
- parallel: [16] Etymologically, parallel simply means ‘beside each other’. It comes via French parallèle and Latin parallēlus from Greek parállēlos. This was a compound formed from pará ‘beside’ and allélōn ‘each other’, a derivative of állos ‘other’ (to which English else is distantly related).
=> else - parallel (adj.)
- 1540s, from Middle French parallèle (16c.) and directly from Latin parallelus, from Greek parallelos "parallel," from para allelois "beside one another," from para- "beside" (see para- (1)) + allelois "each other," from allos "other" (see alias (adv.)). As a noun from 1550s. Parallel bars as gymnastics apparatus are recorded from 1868.
- parallel (v.)
- 1590s, from parallel (n.).
双语例句
- 1. Parallel lines will never meet no matter how far extended.
- 无论延伸多长，平行线永不相交。
来自柯林斯例句
- 2. Farthing Lane's just above the High Street and parallel with it.
- 法辛巷刚好在大街的北面，与大街平行。
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- 3. Do the emotions develop in parallel with the intellect?
- 情感与智力是并行发展的吗？
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- 4. This is a real world, running parallel to our own.
- 这是个真实的世界，与我们的世界并存。
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- 5. It's an ecological disaster with no parallel anywhere else in the world.
- 这是一场在世界其他地方都没有出现过的生态灾难。
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