corollary

英语

词源

源自中古英语，源自晚期拉丁语 corōllārium (“为花冠支付钱；礼物，酬金；推导”)，源自corōlla (“小花冠”)，corōna (“冠，王冠”)的指小词。

发音

• 国际音标^(帮助)：/kɒˈɹɒləɹi/, /ˈkɒɹələɹi/
• (美国) 英语发音：kôr'əlĕrē、国际音标^(帮助)：/ˈkɔɹəˌlɛɹi/
• (澳大利亚) 国际音标^(帮助)：/kɔˈɹoʊˌlɛɹi/

• （英国南部）音频

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名词

corollary (复数 corollaries)

1. 附赠品，多给的物品
2. 顺便做的事情，顺水推舟达成的结果

   Finally getting that cracked window fixed was a nice corollary of redoing the whole storefront.

   翻修整个商店的时候终于能顺便把那个破窗修了。

3. (数学，逻辑学) 推论

   We have proven that this set is finite and well ordered; as a corollary, we now know that there is an order-preserving map from it to the natural numbers.

   我们证明了这个集合有穷有序，进而推导出，存在一个它到自然数的保序映射。

衍生词汇

• subcorollary

形容词

corollary (无比较级)

1. 顺水推舟的，顺便的
   • 2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, 出自 Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI，页号 11:

     However, given current sensibilities about individual privacy and data protection, the recording of oral data is becoming increasingly onerous for researchers who are obliged to navigate an often time-consuming and complex series of administrative requirements and corollary review processes in order to be granted ethics clearance.

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2. (罕用) 构成推论的

延伸阅读

• “corollary”, Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, OCLC 800618302
• “corollary”, The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, OCLC 867766587