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单词 corollary
释义 cor·ol·lary
I. \ˈkȯrəˌlerē, ˈkär-, -eri, Brit usually kəˈräləri\ noun
(-es)
Etymology: Middle English corolarie, from Late Latin corollarium, from Latin, gratuity, garland, from corolla small garland + -arium -ary — more at corolla
1.
 a. : a proposition that follows upon one just demonstrated and that requires no additional proof
 b. : a deduction, consequence, or additional inference more or less immediate from a proved proposition
2. obsolete
 a. : something appended to a speech or writing : appendix, conclusion
 b. : something beyond what is due : something added or superfluous
3.
 a. : something that naturally follows : a practical consequence : result
  < the war has … paved the way for an economic and, as a corollary, a semipolitical internationalism — Edward Sapir >
  < love was a stormy passion, and jealousy its normal corollary — Ida Treat >
 b. : something that incidentally or naturally attends or accompanies : accompaniment
  < only after the physical impossibility of the revolutionary goals had been demonstrated did its political corollary find acceptance — H.A.Kissinger >
  < a corollary to the problem of the number of vessels to be built was that of the types of vessels to be constructed — Daniel Marx >
II. adjective
: constituting a corollary:
 a. : derived from a proposition : consequential
 b. : that follows from or derives naturally from a circumstance or phenomenon : resulting
  < a sound economy and the corollary prosperity >
 c. : occurring together with or accompanying another phenomenon : associated, supplementary
  < five years after the Emancipation Proclamation the Fourteenth Amendment was established as a corollary measure >
  < expansion of the knowledge of atomic energy leading to corollary experimentation … in power generation — Americana Annual >
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