parallel

英 ['p?r?lel] 美['p?r?l?l]

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復數:?parallels;第三人稱單數:?parallels;過去式:?parallelled;過去分詞:?parallelled;現在分詞:?parallelling;

1、par- / para- "beside" + allel-.
2、字面意思就是：beside one another.

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。

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.).

1. Parallel lines will never meet no matter how far extended.: 無論延伸多長，平行線永不相交。

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。

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。