a.

1. 平行的，同方向的[（+to/with）]
   These two lines are parallel.

   这两条线平行。

2. 相同的；类似的[（+to）]
   She and her friends have parallel likes and dislikes.

   她和她的朋友喜恶相同。

3. 【电】并联的

n.

1. 平行线；平行面[C][（+to/with）]
   The parallels seem to come together in the distance.

   平行线在远处看上去似交合在一起。

2. 类似的人（或事物），可相比拟的人（或事物）[C][（+to/with）]
   You do not have to go far to find a living parallel for these prehistoric organisms.

   你不必走远就可以找到与这些史前有机体相类似的生物。

3. 相似处[C][（+between/with）]
   There are curious parallels between medicine and law.

   在医学和法律之间有着奇特的相似之处。

4. 比较[C][（+between）]
   The historian draws a parallel between Washington and Lincoln.

   这位历史学家将华盛顿和林肯作了比较。

5. 纬线；纬圈[C]
6. 【电】并联[U]
   The two generators operate in parallel.

   这两台发电机并联发电。

vt.

1. 使成平行；与……平行
   The street paralleled the railroad.

   那条街与铁路平行。

2. 比较[（+with）]
   They paralleled his life with those of the saints.

   他们将他的生活与圣人的生活相比。

3. 与……相似，比得上
   Your story closely parallels what he told me.

   你的说法跟他告诉我的情况极为相似。

adj.

1. (of lines, planes, or surfaces) side by side and having the same distance continuously between them.
2. occurring or existing at the same time or in a similar way; corresponding.
   ▸Computing  involving the simultaneous performance of operations.
3. of or denoting electrical components connected in parallel.

n.

1. a person or thing that is similar or analogous to another.
   ▸a similarity or comparison.
2. (also parallel of latitude) each of the imaginary parallel circles of constant latitude on the earth's surface.
3. Printing  two parallel lines (||) as a reference mark.

v.

1. run or lie parallel to.
2. be similar or corresponding to.