parallel是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 平行的, 相当的 n. 类似的人或事, 比较 vt. 与…相似，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After walking about the garden, visiting the stable, and even doing some gymnastic exercises together on the parallel bars, Levin returned to the house with his guest, and went with him into the drawing room.
-- She is happy, she makes another person happy, and she's not broken down as I am, but most likely just as she always was, bright, clever, open to every impression," thought Darya Alexandrovna,--and a sly smile curved her lips, for, as she pondered on Anna's love affair, Darya Alexandrovna constructed on parallel lines an almost identical love affair for herself, with an imaginary composite figure, the ideal man who was in love with her.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- During the night Camp Walbach was passed on the left; Lodge Pole Creek ran parallel with the road, marking the boundary between the territories of Wyoming and Colorado.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On the right hand, the blank unwhitewashed wall of a four-storied house stretched far into the court; on the left, a wooden hoarding ran parallel with it for - twenty paces into the court, and then turned sharply to the left.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At three in the afternoon he found himself at the foot of a slope more than a mile in length, which ran to the ridge of a range of hills lying parallel with the shore, and forming a monotonous barrier between the basin of cultivated country inland and the wilder scenery of the coast.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Rastignac determined to open two parallel trenches so as to insure success; he would be a learned doctor of law and a man of fashion.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was brought parallel to me, as I lay.
-- For the better convenience of beholding him, I lay on my side, so that my face was parallel to his, and he stood but three yards off: however, I have had him since many times in my hand, and therefore cannot be deceived in the descrip-tion.
-- The emperor holds a stick in his hands, both ends parallel to the horizon, while the candidates advancing, one by one, sometimes leap over the stick, sometimes creep un-der it, backward and forward, several times, according as the stick is advanced or depressed.
-- I took nine of these sticks, and fixing them firmly in the ground in a quadrangular figure, two feet and a half square, I took four other sticks, and tied them parallel at each corner, about two feet from the ground; then I fastened my hand-kerchief to the nine sticks that stood erect; and extended it on all sides, till it was tight as the top of a drum; and the four parallel sticks, rising about five inches higher than the handkerchief, served as ledges on each side.
-- The parallel sticks secured them and their horses from fall-ing over the stage; and the emperor was so much delighted, that he ordered this entertainment to be repeated several 41days, and once was pleased to be lifted up and give the word of command; and with great difficulty persuaded even the empress herself to let me hold her in her close chair within two yards of the stage, when she was able to take a full view of the whole performance.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Indifferent to the rain, and moving with a quick determined step, she struck into a side-path parallel with the ride.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The longest of the streets of Reykjavik runs parallel to the shore.
-- CHAPTER 10 TRAVELING IN ICELAND It ought, one would have thought, to have been night, even in the sixty-fifth parallel of latitude; but still the nocturnal illumination did not surprise me.
-- Taking in my mental vision a radius of five hundred leagues to the westward, I could see under this parallel only the little-known volcanoes of the northwest coast of America.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Neither do I know how, or where, to find a case parallel to my own.
-- How does that part of the parallel stand?'
-- Mr Sparkler considered it a parallel case to that of some of our fellows in the West Indies with Yellow Jack.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Parallel meridians rudely pecked into the glass, surround these footpads' goblets.
-- Your most usual point of perch is the head of the t' gallant-mast, where you stand upon two thin parallel sticks (almost peculiar to whalemen) called the t' gallant cross-trees.
-- Preserving an interval of some few yards between itself and the ship, the Jeroboam's boat by the occasional use of its oars contrived to keep parallel to the Pequod, as she heavily forged through the sea (for by this time it blew very fresh), with her main-topsail aback; though, indeed, at times by the sudden onset of a large rolling wave, the boat would be pushed some way ahead; but would be soon skilfully brought to her proper bearings again.
-- To the student of old Roman walls, the middle layer will furnish a curious parallel to the thin course of tiles always alternating with the stone in those wonderful relics of the antique, and which undoubtedly contribute so much to the great strength of the masonry.
-- He desired that ship to unite with his own in the search; by sailing over the sea some four or five miles apart, on parallel lines, and so sweeping a double horizon, as it were.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Fagin laid great stress on the fact of his having taken Oliver in, and cherished him, when, without his timely aid, he might have perished with hunger; and he related the dismal and affecting history of a young lad whom, in his philanthropy, he had succoured under parallel circumstances, but who, proving unworthy of his confidence and evincing a desire to communicate with the police, had unfortunately come to be hanged at the Old Bailey one morning.
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