• n. 平行線；對比
• vt. 使…與…平行
• adj. 平行的；類似的，相同的

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。

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).
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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.).

1. Parallel lines will never meet no matter how far extended.

無論延伸多長，平行線永不相交。

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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。

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3. Do the emotions develop in parallel with the intellect?

情感與智力是并行發展的嗎？

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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。

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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。

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