| 单词 | to draw a parallel |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto draw a parallel a. Close correspondence or analogy; a point of comparison or similarity between two people or things. Hence also: an act of drawing such correspondence or analogy; the placing of things side by side mentally or descriptively so as to show their similarity. Frequently to draw a parallel. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > similarity > [noun] > correspondence, analogy, or parallelism analogy1550 correspondency1598 parallel1599 correspondence1605 symbolization1607 corresponcy1621 homology1656 parallelism1656 analogicalness1731 analogousness1859 collaterality1872 parallelity1897 the mind > attention and judgement > discovery > comparison > comparison in parallel > [noun] parallel1599 parallelization1610 the mind > attention and judgement > discovery > comparison > comparison in parallel > [noun] > instance of parallel1599 parallelism1656 1599 Master Broughtons Lett. Answered vii. 22 I craue pardon of his Grace for abasing him in paralell with such an one as thou art. 1628 W. Prynne Briefe Suruay Mr. Cozens 61 Thus farre you haue an exact, and perfect Paralell of our authors writings with the Papists. a1639 H. Wotton Earl of Essex & Duke of Buckingham: Parallel in Reliquiæ Wottonianæ (1672) 161 (heading) Of Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, and George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham: Some observations by way of paralell. 1687 Bp. G. Burnet Contin. Refl. Mr. Varillas's Hist. Heresies 39 He goes on to make a Parallel between the late Protector and King Henry's Minister. 1710 R. Steele Tatler No. 188. ⁋10 You are drawing Parallels between the greatest Actors of the Age. 1789 T. Jefferson Let. 3 Aug. in Papers (1958) XV. 327 In drawing the parallel between what England is, and what France is to be I forgot to observe that the latter will have a real constitution..whereas England has no constitution at all. 1818 H. Hallam View Europe Middle Ages I. iii. 324 The two republics stand in continual parallel. 1878 R. B. Smith Carthage 57 It is the Battle of Megiddo and the brook Kishon that we fancy we see... The parallel is close indeed throughout. 1925 G. K. Chesterton Everlasting Man i. iii. 61 The writer..was merely taking for granted this very dubious parallel between the prehistoric and the decivilised man. 1995 Extrapolation Spring 12 Kirk is unmasking the parallel between cultural appropriation and imperialistic expansionism. < as lemmas |
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