parallel

英 ['pærəlel] 美['pærəlɛl]

英英释义考试真题实用场景例句

近义词equal pace with keep tie balance

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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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。

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.

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。

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。

3. Do the emotions develop in parallel with the intellect?: 情感与智力是并行发展的吗？

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。

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。

英英释意

1. something having the property of being analogous to something else

2. an imaginary line around the Earth parallel to the equator

考试真题

It is one that has seen no parallel in economic history.

If he keeps the palm of the hand parallel to the floor, as he would in his own culture when making known the height of a child, for example, he will very likely be greeted by laughter, in Colombia this gesture is reserved for the description of animals.

The damage to American craftsmanship seems to parallel the steep slide in manufacturing employment.

Instead, the new habits we deliberately ingrain into ourselves create parallel pathways that can bypass those old roads.

But brain researchers have discovered that when we consciously develop new habits, we create parallel synaptic paths, and even entirely new brain cells, that can jump our trains of thought onto new, innovative tracks.

A parallel situation exists in respect of predatory mammals and fish-eating birds.

Arizona had attempted to fashion state policies that ran parallel to the existing federal ones.

But brain researchers have discovered that when we consciously develop new habits, we create parallel paths, and even entirely new brain cells, that can jump our trains of thought onto new, innovative tracks.

Instead, the new habits we deliberately press into ourselves create parallel pathways that can bypass those old roads.

实用场景例句

parallel lines: 平行线

The road and the canal are parallel to each other.: 道路与运河平行。

a parallel case: 同类型事例

parallel trends: 并行发展的趋势

parallel processing: 并行处理

The road and the canal run parallel to each other.: 道路与运河平行。

The plane flew parallel to the coast.: 飞机沿海岸线飞行。

These ideas have parallels in Freud's thought too.: 这些观念在弗洛伊德的思想中也有极相似之处。

This is an achievement without parallel in modern times.: 这是现代无可比拟的成就。

This tradition has no parallel in our culture.: 这种传统在我们的文化中是没有的。

There are interesting parallels between the 1960s and the late 1990s.: 20世纪60年代和90年代后期存在着有趣的相似之处。

It is possible to draw a parallel between (= find similar features in) their experience and ours.: 在他们的经历和我们的经历之间找到相似点是可能的。

the 49th parallel: 第49纬度线

The new degree and the existing certificate courses would run in parallel.: 新的学位课程和现有的证书课程将并行开设。

Their legal system parallels our own.: 他们的法律制度与我们的相似。

The rise in unemployment is paralleled by an increase in petty crime.: 在失业率上升的同时，轻度犯罪也跟着增长。

a level of achievement that has never been paralleled: 绝无仅有的最高成就

Readers familiar with English history will find a vague parallel to the suppression of the monasteries...: 熟悉英国历史的读者会发现这与镇压修道院略有相似之处。

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。

Detailed study of folk music from a variety of countries reveals many close parallels...: 仔细研究各国民间音乐后发现了许多非常相似之处。

There are significant parallels with the 1980s...: 与20世纪80年代有明显相似之处。

Often there are emotional reasons paralleling the financial ones...: 往往情感方面的原因和经济方面原因同时存在。

The change in smoking is paralleled by a change in the incidence of lung cancer...: 吸烟情况的变化与肺癌发病率的变化如影随形。

...parallel talks between the two countries' Foreign Ministers...: 两国外交部长同时进行的会谈

Their instincts do not always run parallel with ours...: 他们的本能并不总是和我们的相同。

...seventy-two ships, drawn up in two parallel lines...: 平行排成两队的72艘船

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。

...the area south of the 38th parallel.: 38度纬线以南地区

Davies has managed to pursue his diverse interests in parallel with his fast-moving career...: 戴维斯在事业突飞猛进的同时并未放弃自己广泛的兴趣爱好。

Progress on this issue must be made in parallel to any moves on the economic front.: 这个问题上的进展应该和经济领域的进展同步。

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