| 单词 | parallel |
| 释义 | parallel (pærəlel ) Word forms: parallels , parallelling , parallelled regional note: in AM, use paralleling, paralleled 1. countable noun If something has a parallel, it is similar to something else, but exists or happens in a different place or at a different time. If it has no parallel or is without parallel, it is not similar to anything else. Readers familiar with English history will find a vague parallel to the suppression of the monasteries. [+ to] It's an ecological disaster with no parallel anywhere else in the world. ...an achievement without parallel in the modern era. Synonyms: equivalent, counterpart, match, equal 2. countable noun If there are parallels between two things, they are similar in some ways. Detailed study of folk music from a variety of countries reveals many close parallels. There are significant parallels with the 1980s. Friends of the dead lawyer were quick to draw a parallel between the two murders. [+ between] Synonyms: similarity, correspondence, correlation, comparison 3. verb If one thing parallels another, they happen at the same time or are similar, and often seem to be connected. Often there are emotional reasons paralleling the financial ones. [VERB noun] His remarks paralleled those of the president. [VERB noun] Synonyms: correspond to, compare with, agree with, complement 4. adjective Parallel events or situations happen at the same time as one another, or are similar to one another. ...parallel talks between the two countries' Foreign Ministers. Their instincts do not always run parallel with ours. [+ with] This is a real world, running parallel to our own. 5. adjective If two lines, two objects, or two lines of movement are parallel, they are the same distance apart along their whole length. ...seventy-two ships, drawn up in two parallel lines. Farthing Lane's just above the High Street and parallel with it. [+ with] This trail was roughly parallel to the border. Synonyms: equidistant, alongside, aligned, side by side 6. countable noun A parallel is an imaginary line round the Earth that is parallel to the equator. Parallels are shown on maps. ...the area south of the 38th parallel. 7. in parallel phrase Something that occurs in parallel with something else occurs at the same time as it. Davies has managed to pursue his diverse interests in parallel with his fast-moving career. [+ with] Progress on this issue must be made in parallel to any moves on the economic front. Collocations: clear parallels Yet there are clear parallels. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 There are clear parallels with the situation in our own time. Globe and Mail This remarkable story shows clear parallels with the subsequent novel in setting, theme and denouement. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Food inflation and the valuation of the sector run in close parallel, according to the report. Times, Sunday Times We draw a close parallel between the two. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Our ancestors believed there were close parallels between the human and animal worlds. Times, Sunday Times Some relational presentation concepts have close parallels within the visual literacy and media literacy movements. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He stunned his colleagues.... when he presented a new method for detecting viral infections that bore close parallels to the basic tenets of homeopathy. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 As that year also saw storms, stifling summer heat and a cruelly lengthy winter, there are clear contemporary parallels. Times, Sunday Times The contemporary parallels, here as elsewhere, are glaringly obvious. Times, Sunday Times Publicity material makes loud, vague references to 'contemporary parallels', and in the plays themselves, heavy-handed analogies spur a barrage of bad jokes. The Times Literary Supplement He doesn't need to labour the contemporary parallels. Times, Sunday Times This notorious episode may have taken place four centuries ago, but there are contemporary parallels. Times, Sunday Times The story takes place in a parallel dimension, where prehistoric life thrives alongside diverse human civilizations that are not technologically advanced. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Even today, there are a few people, who believe that this mysterious land exists, perhaps somewhere in a parallel dimension. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In 1994, he invented a device that allows people to travel from one parallel dimension to another. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The headlines could have been from parallel dimensions. Times,Sunday Times Both were mavericks, but otherwise they seemed to exist in parallel dimensions. Times, Sunday Times It follows the soap opera of the students' lives and it also captures brilliantly their parallel existence on social media. Times, Sunday Times I was living a parallel existence and was easily able to split the two. Times, Sunday Times He believes the technology will soon exist for us to create a parallel existence every bit as 'real' as reality. Times, Sunday Times He said that he had not expected understanding from his business col-leagues about his parallel existence but was given a lot of encouragment when he revealed his intentions. Times, Sunday Times These parallel existences can be a source of tremendous frustration, particularly if we believe that we are not leading them because of opportunities we have failed to grasp. Times, Sunday Times He also confirmed that a parallel investigation into a possible car glass cartel, which had involved dawn raids two years ago, was 'ongoing'. Times, Sunday Times Two alien law officers run a parallel investigation. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Their parallel investigations take different routes. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It was like a parallel life, a performed life. Times, Sunday Times Details of her schooling are virtually nonexistent in the parallel life she constructed for herself over the years. Times, Sunday Times This parallel life that's but a heartbeat away from normality. Times, Sunday Times In a planet rotating slower than our own, this parallel life occurs in what we consider our past. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Throughout those years she would live a parallel life as a professional stylist and part-time photographer. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 There are parallel narratives running in this illuminating film. Times, Sunday Times There are two parallel narratives. Times,Sunday Times This captures the parallel narratives of short-term trivia and long-term trauma contained in the text. Times, Sunday Times The plot unfolds with two parallel narratives; one in the symbolic domain, the other a traditional short story narrative about these protagonists. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Characters frequently break the fourth wall to convey their feelings to the audience and the action alternates between time periods, creating parallel narratives. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In many ways our lives have followed parallel paths. Times, Sunday Times Parallel paths are redundant, meaning that all of the parallel paths must fail for the parallel network to fail. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Assigning a signal to two parallel paths with significantly different processing on each path can result in extreme comb filtering when recombined. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 As the entire line was double-tracked, with the exception of the tunnel, there were two parallel paths to supply current to, including some electrified sidings. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The executioner's grasp and the angel's reach are two parallel paths. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The deserted streets and ominous government warnings seemed to exist in a parallel reality. Times,Sunday Times It's like a parallel reality. Times, Sunday Times In which parallel reality can that ever have seemed like a good idea? Times, Sunday Times Like their 50-year-old idol, a large number of the fans gave the impression of occupying a parallel reality. Times, Sunday Times Noting the cultural references to other dystopic works, he complained that the movie failed to get beneath the surface of this shallow parallel reality. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 There are 18 buildings set in three parallel rows. Smithsonian When this pattern repeated itself many times over, the clouds appeared in parallel rows stretching for hundreds of miles downwind of the mountains. Times, Sunday Times Together in the kitchen garden, we sowed parallel rows of sweetcorn. Times, Sunday Times The venue had ten machines, set up in parallel rows of five, each showing a different movie. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It forms parallel rows of cells, which result in secondary tissues. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The former economics professor said that he had been secretly planning a parallel system of liquidity. Times, Sunday Times He acknowledged the difficulties of fighting his own people, but said 'no state can afford a parallel system of governance and militias'. Times, Sunday Times That would create parallel system. Times, Sunday Times Moreover, a parallel algorithm can be implemented either in a parallel system (using shared memory) or in a distributed system (using message passing). Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 A parallel system that allowed more refined definition of alleles was developed. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Once those safeguards are in place and the fiscal examination begins, trade discussions could proceed concurrently on a parallel track. Times, Sunday Times Fortunately, several phonautograms had a separate parallel track, inscribed simultaneously with the voice track, in which a constant reference tone had been recorded. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 We wanted one track, not dual or parallel tracks. Times, Sunday Times If we want to make the internet a safe and free place, we have to work on parallel tracks, the societal and the personal. The Times Literary Supplement It traces modernist literary experimentation and coterminous cinematic physical comedy, until the two parallel tracks merge in the final chapter to form a single phenomenon, 'slapstick modernism'. The Times Literary Supplement Straight lines are always easier to work with, but that doesn't mean they have to run parallel to the garden boundaries. Times, Sunday Times The result of one tectonic plate moving under another, they often run parallel to ridges. Times, Sunday Times Trouser-wise, a row of braid should always snake its way down the side of your legs, with straight pockets to run parallel to them. Times, Sunday Times Many run parallel to parked cars, meaning that a careless driver opening a door without looking can cause serious injury. Times, Sunday Times These were thin water filled chutes that would run parallel to the river. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It found the apes develop social tiers with striking parallels to our societies, including forging lifetime bonds with many relatives. The Sun The social lives of gorillas are more complex than previously recognised, the research shows, with striking parallels to human societies. Times, Sunday Times The striking parallels begin with the timing. Times, Sunday Times Still, there are striking parallels between what happened 113 years ago and the current situation. The Times Literary Supplement And yet inside the parties in both countries there are striking parallels. Times, Sunday Times Translations: Chinese: 平行的, 类似的事情存在或发生在不同地点或不同时间的, 与...类似存在或发生在不同地点或不同时间的, 平行的 Japanese: 平行の, 類似物, 同時に起きる, 並行して |
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