parallel
英['p?r?lel]
美['p?r?l?l]
- n. 平行線；對比
- vt. 使…與…平行
- adj. 平行的；類似的，相同的
詞態變化
復數:?parallels;第三人稱單數:?parallels;過去式:?parallelled;過去分詞:?parallelled;現在分詞:?parallelling;
助記提示
1、par- / para- "beside" + allel-.
2、字面意思就是：beside one another.
中文詞源
parallel 平行的，并列的
來自希臘語parallelos,并列，平行，para-,在旁，在周圍，-allel,改變，另外的，詞源同else,alternate.即在旁邊的另外一條，引申詞義平行的，并列的。
英文詞源
- 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.).
雙語例句
- 1. Parallel lines will never meet no matter how far extended.
- 無論延伸多長，平行線永不相交。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. Farthing Lane's just above the High Street and parallel with it.
- 法辛巷剛好在大街的北面，與大街平行。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. Do the emotions develop in parallel with the intellect?
- 情感與智力是并行發展的嗎？
來自柯林斯例句
- 4. This is a real world, running parallel to our own.
- 這是個真實的世界，與我們的世界并存。
來自柯林斯例句
- 5. It's an ecological disaster with no parallel anywhere else in the world.
- 這是一場在世界其他地方都沒有出現過的生態災難。
來自柯林斯例句