| 单词 | parallelism |
| 释义 | parallelism (once / 6766 pages) n You find parallelism between two things that are alike, like parallel lines. If your path in life is to save the world from an evil wizard, you can remark on the parallelism between your life and Harry Potter's. In English grammar, parallelism is used in sentence construction to give matching structure. In the sentence, "I like to read, dancing, and fighting off Zombie attacks," the parts of the list are not parallel. You can revise the sentence for parallelism: "I like to read, to dance, and to fight off Zombie attacks." Of course, if Zombies are attacking, they probably don't care if the sentence parts are parallel or not. WORD FAMILYparallelism: parallelisms+/parallel: nonparallel, paralleled, paralleling, parallelism, parallelize, parallelled, parallelling, parallels, unparallel/paralleled: unparalleled/parallelize: parallelizing USAGE EXAMPLESThis massive parallelism would not help with many tasks—nobody thinks quantum computers will revolutionize word processing or email. Science Magazine(Dec 01, 2016) "The parallelism here is the supposedly righteous killing of criminals... the character only kills those who have wronged others," Lorenzo said. Reuters(Nov 19, 2016) I think any good historian should eschew simple parallelisms, but I think, in this instance, there actually is a pertinent historical lesson. Slate(Jun 14, 2016) n similarity by virtue of corresponding Syn|Hyper correspondence similarity the quality of being similar |
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