单词 | parallel world |
释义 | > as lemmasparallel world parallel world n. a fictional or hypothesized world held to exist alongside or in addition to the known world; = parallel universe n. ΚΠ 1931 B. Herbert in Wonder Stories Aug. 313/1 The disconcerting change of direction of gravity, catching him unawares while passing along the fourth dimension from that tri-dimensional parallel world so near to ours. 1964 R. A. Heinlein in If July 48/2 You've heard of parallel worlds? A million worlds side by side, almost alike but not quite? Worlds where Elizabeth married Essex and Mark Anthony hated redheads? 1974 Sci. Amer. May 122/3 He outlines a metatheory in which the universe at every micromicroinstant branches into countless parallel worlds. 2001 Sci. Fiction Chron. June 30/1 The good writers actually create a parallel world when they create their world of fiction. < as lemmas |
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